id: 156496 accession number: 1992.213 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1992.213 updated: 2024-03-26 02:00:14.388000 Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1923. Laura Gilpin (American, 1891–1979). Platinum print; image: 19.1 x 23 cm (7 1/2 x 9 1/16 in.); matted: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, In memory of Ruth Harter and Hazel Harter Jones 1992.213 © 1979 Amon Carter Museum of American Art title: Colorado Springs, Colorado title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1923 creation date earliest: 1923 creation date latest: 1923 current location: creditline: In memory of Ruth Harter and Hazel Harter Jones copyright: © 1979 Amon Carter Museum of American Art --- culture: America, 20th century technique: platinum print department: Photography collection: PH - American 1900-1950 type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Laura Gilpin (American, 1891–1979) - artist Laura Gilpin American, 1891-1979 Born in Colorado Springs, Laura Gilpin photographed the landscape and native peoples of the American Southwest with great sensitivity and skill for more than five decades. Interested in photography as a child, Gilpin took pictures at the 1904 St. Louis Louisiana Purchase Exposition with her Brownie camera and in 1908 experimented with the autochrome color process. From 1916-17 she studied at the Clarence H. White School of Photography in New York; her work during this period reflects the influence of White's pictorial style. Returning to Colorado Springs in 1918, Gilpin opened a commercial studio for portraiture and architectural photography and began recording ruins in southern Colorado and New Mexico. During World War II she worked as a photographer for the Boeing Aircraft Corporation (1942-45) and after the war settled in Santa Fe, New Mexico. There she undertook commercial assignments and pursued her own personal projects, including an ongoing series begun in the 1930s documenting the Navajo people and their culture, which resulted in The Enduring Navaho (1968). Other books by Gilpin include The Pueblos: A Camera Chronicle (1941), Temples in Yucatan: A Camera Chronicle of Chichen Itza (1948), and The Rio Grande: River of Destiny (1949). Following her death in 1979, Gilpin's photographic estate was given to the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. Seven years later the museum organized a major retrospective of her work, accompanied by the exhibition catalogue Laura Gilpin: An Enduring Grace. M.M. --- measurements: Image: 19.1 x 23 cm (7 1/2 x 9 1/16 in.); Matted: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in brown ink on verso: "Laura Gilpin / Colo. Springs Colo / August 1923 / © Colo. Spgs. Chamber of Commerce"; in pencil on verso: "© 1923 Colo. Spgs. Chamber of Commerce" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Signs of Affection: Gifts Honoring the Museum's 75th Anniversary opening date: 1992-10-27T05:00:00 Signs of Affection: Gifts Honoring the Museum's 75th Anniversary. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 27, 1992-January 3, 1993). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Jan. 24 - April 13, 1986: "Laura Gilpin: An Enduring Grace." Exhibition catalogue p. 279.', 'opening_date': '1986-01-24T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, October 27, 1992 - January 3, 1993: "Signs of Affection: Gifts Honoring the Museum\'s Sevety-Fifth Anniversary," CMA Bulletin, 80 (February 1993), p. 68, no. 98.', 'opening_date': '1992-10-27T00:00:00'} --- 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. 186 url: --- IMAGES