id: 154815 accession number: 1989.397 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1989.397 updated: 2023-12-06 00:35:34.361000 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1920s creation date earliest: 1920 creation date latest: 1929 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: America, 20th century technique: gelatin silver print department: Photography collection: PH - American 1900-1950 type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- 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. --- 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.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in pencil on verso: "Seligman [sic] B-LORE....[?]" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Year in Review for 1989 opening date: 1990-02-06T05:00:00 The Year in Review for 1989. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 6-April 15, 1990). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * CMA, Feb. 6 - April 15, 1990: "Year in Review 1989," CMA Bulletin, 77 (Feb. 1990), p. 68, no. 54. --- PROVENANCE --- 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. 317 url: --- IMAGES