id: 153258 accession number: 1986.221.1 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1986.221.1 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:59.230000 Jupiter Portfolio: Sun over the Pacific (Devil's Slide), 1947. Minor White (American, 1908–1976). Gelatin silver print; image: 18.2 x 25.2 cm (7 3/16 x 9 15/16 in.); paper: 27.5 x 34.9 cm (10 13/16 x 13 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Mann 1986.221.1 © 1982 Trustees of Princeton University title: Sun over the Pacific (Devil's Slide) title in original language: series: Jupiter Portfolio 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: © 1982 Trustees of Princeton University --- culture: America, 20th century technique: gelatin silver print department: Photography collection: PH - American 1900-1950 type: Portfolio find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Minor White (American, 1908–1976) - artist Minor White American, 1908-1976 Minor Martin White (born in Minneapolis) was a photographer, poet, and teacher who worked in photographic sequences to achieve greater expressive power. Several years after graduating from the University of Minnesota with a major in botany and a minor in English, White moved to Portland where he joined the Oregon Camera Club. Interested in photography since his youth, he worked as an assistant in a photography studio at night and in 1938 served as a creative photographer for the Works Progress Administration. Following service in the U.S. Army Intelligence Corps (1942-45), White moved to New York where he studied art history with Meyer Shapiro at Columbia University (19450-46). In 1946 he met Alfred Stieglitz, whose ideas about photographic equivalents had a deep impact on his work. Like Stieglitz, White sought to express inner feelings and beliefs through his work. Around this time he began producing sequences of images that were arranged for their allusive or metaphorical meaning rather than for narrative content, a practice he continued throughout his career. In 1952 White helped found Aperture magazine, serving as its editor until l975. He took a position as curator of exhibitions at George Eastman House in Rochester in the early 1950s, working there until 1957. While at Eastman House he also served as editor for the museum's publication, Image. In 1955 White began teaching at the Rochester Institute of Technology, leaving in 1965 to join the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Over the years he became a well-respected and influential teacher, and continued to teach at mit until 1974. During the 1950s White became interested in mysticism, Eastern philosophy, and Gestalt psychology, all of which had an impact on his work and teaching. In 1962 he was a founding member of the Society for Photographic Education and in 1970 was awarded a fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. M.M. * Light Gallery - publisher --- measurements: Image: 18.2 x 25.2 cm (7 3/16 x 9 15/16 in.); Paper: 27.5 x 34.9 cm (10 13/16 x 13 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in pencil on recto of paper: "Minor White [signed]"; in pencil on recto of mount: "Sun over the Pacific, Devil's Slide--1947" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: American Space: Landscape Photography 1900-1950 opening date: 2001-01-06T00:00:00 American Space: Landscape Photography 1900-1950. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 6-May 23, 2001). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; January 3-May 23, 2001. "American Space: Landscape Photography, 1900-1950."', 'opening_date': '2001-01-03T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Mann date: footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: March 16, 1987 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. page number: Reproduced: P. 392 url: --- IMAGES