id: 154889 accession number: 1989.456 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1989.456 updated: 2023-03-14 12:01:39.349000 Porch Series: Porch, Provincetown, 1977. Joel Meyerowitz (American, b. 1938). Chromogenic print; image: 47.1 x 59.4 cm (18 9/16 x 23 3/8 in.); paper: 50.7 x 60.9 cm (19 15/16 x 24 in.); matted: 61 x 76.2 cm (24 x 30 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchased with a grant from the NEA and matched by contributions from Museum members in 1989 1989.456 title: Porch, Provincetown title in original language: series: Porch Series series in original language: creation date: 1977 creation date earliest: 1977 creation date latest: 1977 current location: creditline: Purchased with a grant from the NEA and matched by contributions from Museum members in 1989 copyright: --- culture: America, 20th century technique: Chromogenic print 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: 47.1 x 59.4 cm (18 9/16 x 23 3/8 in.); Paper: 50.7 x 60.9 cm (19 15/16 x 24 in.); Matted: 61 x 76.2 cm (24 x 30 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in black ink on verso: "Porch Series 1977 Joel Meyerowitz [signed] 1986" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * CMA, Feb. 6 - April 15, 1990: "Year in Review 1989," CMA Bulletin, 77 (Feb. 1990), p. 72, no. 116 (not exhibited).
CMA, Nov. 18, 1992 - Jan. 3, 1993: "Contemporary American Photographers," CMA Bulletin, 79 (Nov. 1992), p. 350, no. 48. --- PROVENANCE (Bonnie Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY) date: footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: January 29, 1990 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS "1989 Annual Report." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 77, no. 6 (1990): 183-259. page number: Reproduced: cover, p. 182; Mentioned: p. 182 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161288 Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. page number: Reproduced: P. 242 url: --- IMAGES