id: 154840 accession number: 1989.419 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1989.419 updated: 2025-02-09 04:37:41.715000 Eudora Welty's Kitchen, 1989. William Eggleston (American, 1939-). Chromogenic process color print (Ektacolor); image: 83.8 x 57.5 cm (33 x 22 5/8 in.); paper: 99.6 x 76 cm (39 3/16 x 29 15/16 in.); matted: 111.8 x 81.3 cm (44 x 32 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Museum members in 1989 1989.419 © 1989 Eggleston Artistic Trust. All rights reserved. Used by permission. title: Eudora Welty's Kitchen title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1989 creation date earliest: 1989 creation date latest: 1989 current location: creditline: Gift of Museum members in 1989 copyright: © 1989 Eggleston Artistic Trust. All rights reserved. Used by permission. --- culture: America technique: chromogenic process color print (Ektacolor) department: Photography collection: PH - American 1951-Present type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * William Eggleston (American, 1939-) - artist William Eggleston American, 1939- William Eggleston took a serious interest in photography when he discovered the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Walker Evans while a student at Vanderbilt University in 1962. Like Cartier-Bresson, Eggleston's photographs rely heavily on ironic formal juxtapositions, with the added consideration of color. His work also depends on the banality of his subjects: the familiar people and places of his native Memphis and northern Mississippi. Like snapshots, his photographs are candid and commonplace, though they lack the snapshot's posed artifice and sentimental associations. Instead, Eggleston relies on straightforward documentation to effect a cool, often uncanny, distance between viewer and subject. Eggleston was among the first photographers to work regularly with new color technologies of the late 1960s and early 1970s. In 1967 he presented his work using color negative film to John Szarkowski, then director of the department of photographs at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Nine years later Szarkowski organized Eggleston's first solo exhibition at that museum, 75 dye transfer prints. In 1977 Caldecot Chubb, a close friend and supporter, published Eggleston's monograph Election Eve, which included work based on Alexander Gardner's Sketchbook of the Civil War. In 1978 Eggleston was invited to conduct research in color video at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His awards include fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation (1974) and the National Endowment for the Arts (1975, 1978). He has photographed in Kenya (1980), Berlin, Salzburg, and Graz for his series Kiss Me Kracow (1983), Egypt (1986), England for the series English Rose (1988), the Transvaal (1989), and Spain (1990). He has also received commissions to shoot on location for John Huston's film Annie (1982), David Byrne's True Stories (1986), and throughout Elvis Presley's mansion, Graceland (1983). A major monograph, The Democratic Forest, was released in 1989, with an introduction by Eudora Welty. Eggleston also collaborated with writer Willie Morris on Faulkner's Mississippi, a book of photographs and accompanying text (1990). Eggleston lives in Memphis. A.W. --- measurements: Image: 83.8 x 57.5 cm (33 x 22 5/8 in.); Paper: 99.6 x 76 cm (39 3/16 x 29 15/16 in.); Matted: 111.8 x 81.3 cm (44 x 32 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in black ink on verso: "W. Eggleston [signed]" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum opening date: 1991-06-07T04:00:00 Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991). 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 Marie Martin date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS 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. 70, no. 79 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25160106 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. 347, no. 15, repr. p. 323 url: www.jstor.org/stable/25161375 Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. page number: Reproduced: P. 144 url: --- IMAGES