id:			154815
accession number:	1989.397
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1989.397
updated:		2025-02-15 12:46:40.086000

Brooklyn Bridge, c. 1920s. Herbert J. Seligmann (American, 1891–1984). Gelatin silver print; image: 10.1 x 7.5 cm (4 x 2 15/16 in.); paper: 10.8 x 8.2 cm (4 1/4 x 3 1/4 in.); matted: 30.6 x 25.4 cm (12 1/16 x 10 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1989.397

title:				Brooklyn Bridge
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creation date:			c. 1920s
creation date earliest:		1920
creation date latest:		1929
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creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
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culture:	America
technique:	gelatin silver print
department:	Photography
collection:	PH - American 1900-1950
type:		Photograph
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CREATORS

* Herbert J. Seligmann (American, 1891–1984)  - artist
Herbert J. Seligmann American, 1891-1984 Born in New York City, Herbert J. Seligmann was an author and journalist who wrote about his association with Alfred Stieglitz during the 1920s in his book Alfred Stieglitz Talking. Seligmann graduated from Harvard University (1912) and from 1914 until the early 1940s worked for the New Republic, the New York Evening Post, the New York Globe, and the New York Tribune. In addition to Alfred Stieglitz Talking (1966), which recounted conversations heard while at Stieglitz's Intimate Gallery during the years 1925-31, Seligmann's publications included The Negro Faces America (1924), Race Against Man (1939), and The Letters of John Marin (1931). Interested in architectural and industrial subjects, Seligmann used the abstract qualities inherent in the scenes he photographed to create complex patterns in his images. M.M.
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measurements: Image: 10.1 x 7.5 cm (4 x 2 15/16 in.); Paper: 10.8 x 8.2 cm (4 1/4 x 3 1/4 in.); Matted: 30.6 x 25.4 cm (12 1/16 x 10 in.)
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	inscription:	Written in pencil on verso: "Seligman [sic] B-LORE....[?]"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Year in Review for 1989
	opening date:   1990-02-06T05:00:00
	<i>The Year in Review for 1989</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 6-April 15, 1990).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'CMA, Feb. 6 - April 15, 1990: "Year in Review 1989," CMA Bulletin, 77 (Feb. 1990), p. 68, no. 54.', 'opening_date': '1990-02-06T00:00:00'}

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. <em>Catalogue of Photography</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.
	page number: 	Reproduced: P. 317
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