id: 153228 accession number: 1986.199 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1986.199 updated: 2022-01-04 17:02:11.838000 View from Twin Peaks, 1947. Max Yavno (American, 1911-1985). Gelatin silver print; image: 7.5 x 13.7 cm (2 15/16 x 5 3/8 in.); matted: 30.6 x 35.6 cm (12 1/16 x 14 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Mann 1986.199 © 1994 Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona Foundation title: View from Twin Peaks title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1947 creation date earliest: 1947 creation date latest: 1947 current location: creditline: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Mann copyright: © 1994 Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona Foundation --- culture: America, 20th century technique: gelatin silver print department: Photography collection: PH - American 1900-1950 type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Max Yavno (American, 1911-1985) - artist Max Yavno American, 1911-1985 During his five-decade career, Max Yavno (born in New York City) produced both fine art and commercial photography. He purchased his first camera in 1930 and pursued his interest in photography while he earned a B.S.S. from City College of New York (1932) and pursued graduate studies in business administration and political science at Columbia University (1932-34). In the late 1930s he became associated with the Photo League in New York and worked for the Works Progress Administration (1936-42), followed by three years of service as a photographer for the U.S. Army. After his military discharge in 1945, Yavno moved to San Francisco where he began a career as a freelance landscape, documentary, and commercial photographer. His images appeared in magazines such as Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, and in 1954 and 1955 he was awarded gold medals by the New York Art Directors Club. During this time he also published The San Francisco Book with Herb Caen (1948) and The Los Angeles Book with Lee Shippey (1950). In 1952 the Museum of Modern Art, New York, purchased a group of Yavno's prints, and a year later he received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Throughout much of the 1950s-60s he focused on commercial assignments, returning to his personal work in the mid-1970s; from 1972-77 he studied cinematography at ucla. In 1979 Yavno traveled to Egypt and Israel on a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts; two years later his work was featured in the monograph The Photography of Max Yavno. M.M. --- measurements: Image: 7.5 x 13.7 cm (2 15/16 x 5 3/8 in.); Matted: 30.6 x 35.6 cm (12 1/16 x 14 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in pencil on recto: "Yavno"; in ink on recto: "Merry Xmas & Happy New Year"; in pencil on verso: "2450 Fulton St. / S. F. 18" translation: remark: --- 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * CMA, February 4 - March 15, 1987: "Year in Review 1986," CMA Bulletin, 74 (February 1987), p. 68, no. 115. --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES