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accession number: 1986.199
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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
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creation date: 1947
creation date earliest: 1947
creation date latest: 1947
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creditline: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Mann
copyright: © 1994 Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona Foundation
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culture: America
technique: gelatin silver print
department: Photography
collection: PH - American 1900-1950
type: Photograph
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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.
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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.)
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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"
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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. 68, no. 115.', 'opening_date': '1987-02-04T00:00:00'}
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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. 401
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