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accession number: 1986.190
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Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads, pl. XXIV: Cantley: Wherries Waiting for the Turn of the Tide, 1886. Peter Henry Emerson (British, 1856–1936). Platinum print; image: 18.8 x 28.4 cm (7 3/8 x 11 3/16 in.); matted: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1986.190
title: Cantley: Wherries Waiting for the Turn of the Tide
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series: Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads, pl. XXIV
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creation date: 1886
creation date earliest: 1886
creation date latest: 1886
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creditline: John L. Severance Fund
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culture: England, 19th century
technique: platinum print
department: Photography
collection: PH - British 19th Century
type: Photograph
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CREATORS
* Peter Henry Emerson (British, 1856–1936) - artist
Peter Henry Emerson British, b. Cuba, 1856-1936
Trained as a physician, Peter Henry Emerson abandoned medicine soon after receiving his degree in order to take up photography. His thorough command of the medium and his interest in reproducing rural subjects in a simple, direct manner led to an approach that he called naturalism. Emerson argued vehemently that the inherent qualities of photography should be used to portray subjects in a manner that eschewed artifice and the unnatural intrusions of the photographer's aesthetic style. This was in distinction to the academicism that Emerson despised, exemplified by the artificially constructed, often cloying images of Oscar G. Rejlander and Henry Peach Robinson.
Emerson's several illustrated volumes of rural British life, beginning with Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads (1886), combined a clarity of vision derived from the advanced science of his day with a retrospective romanticism derived from French and British painting. The result was a unique style that helped direct photography away from artifice toward the visual integrity now associated with modernism and straight photography. Emerson's attempts as a writer and speaker to develop a theoretical base for his style, while highly regarded, are today thought to be a less powerful statement of his opinions than the work he produced. T.W.F.
* Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington (with T.F. Goodall) - publisher
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measurements: Image: 18.8 x 28.4 cm (7 3/8 x 11 3/16 in.); Matted: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Year in Review for 1986
opening date: 1987-02-04T05:00:00
Year in Review for 1986. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 4-March 15, 1987).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'CMA, February 4 - March 15, 1987: "Year in Review 1986," CMA Bulletin, 74 (February 1987), p. 64, no. 69.', 'opening_date': '1987-02-04T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'New Jersey, The Princeton University Art Museum, March 21 - June 7, 1994: "Pictorial Effect/Naturalistic Vision," exhibition catalogue no.', 'opening_date': '1994-03-21T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Norfolk, VA, The Chrysler Museum, June 21 - September 11, 1994: "Pictorial Effect/Naturalistic Vision," exhibition catalogue no. 62, p. 84, repr. p. 17.', 'opening_date': '1994-06-21T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.
page number: Reproduced: P. 146
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IMAGES
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full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1986.190/1986.190_full.tif