id: 154812 accession number: 1989.394 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1989.394 updated: 2024-03-26 02:00:06.612000 Reading, "Figurehead House", 1976. Joel Meyerowitz (American, b. 1938). Chromogenic process color print (Ektacolor); image: 59.3 x 47.1 cm (23 3/8 x 18 9/16 in.); paper: 60.8 x 50.6 cm (23 15/16 x 19 15/16 in.); matted: 76.2 x 61 cm (30 x 24 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John W. Cook Memorial Fund 1989.394 title: Reading, "Figurehead House" title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1976 creation date earliest: 1976 creation date latest: 1976 current location: creditline: John W. Cook Memorial Fund copyright: --- culture: America, 20th century technique: chromogenic process color print (Ektacolor) department: Photography collection: PH - American 1951-Present type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Joel Meyerowitz (American, b. 1938) - artist Joel Meyerowitz American, 1938- Joel Meyerowitz began taking black-and-white photographs in the streets of New York during the 1960s, working with his 35mm Leica camera alongside Garry Winogrand and Lee Friedlander. With the emergence of new technologies in the early 1970s, he successfully translated his vision to color images. In 1976 Meyerowitz further expanded his technical vocabulary by using a large-format camera to photograph in and around Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Published as Cape Light: Photographs by Joel Meyerowitz (1978), the series explores the manipulation of light and the full range of color available to the medium. He is also recognized for his photographs of St. Louis, commissioned by the city in 1977 and published four years later as St. Louis and The Arch (1981). Meyerowitz (born in New York City) studied medical drawing and painting at Ohio State University (B.F.A., 1959), then worked for four years in advertising as an art director. He had his first one-person exhibition at George Eastman House, Rochester (1966), and has since had similar shows throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1968), and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1978). His awards include fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1970, 1978) and the National Endowment for the Arts (1978), and a New York Creative Artists Public Service Grant (1976). In 1981 he was voted Photographer of the Year by the Friends of Photography. Meyerowitz lives in Manhattan. A.W. --- measurements: Image: 59.3 x 47.1 cm (23 3/8 x 18 9/16 in.); Paper: 60.8 x 50.6 cm (23 15/16 x 19 15/16 in.); Matted: 76.2 x 61 cm (30 x 24 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in black ink on verso: "Reading 'Figurehead House' 1976 Joel Meyerowitz [signed] 1985 PL 31 # 101"; in black felt pen on verso: "JZ101-76-1" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Contemporary American Photographers opening date: 1992-11-18T05:00:00 Contemporary American Photographers. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 18, 1992-January 3, 1993). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Hinson, Tom E. "Contemporary American Photographs: An Exhibition." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 79, no. 9 (1992): 306-51. page number: p. 350, no. 46 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25161375 E. H. T. "The Year in Review: Selections 1989." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 77, no. 2 (1990): 38-78. page number: p. 72, no. 117 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25160106 Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. page number: Reproduced: P. 242 url: --- IMAGES