id: 156497
accession number: 1992.214
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url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1992.214
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Charles Weidman, Lynchtown (Humphrey-Weidman Group), 1938. Barbara Morgan (American, 1900–1992). Gelatin silver print; image: 23.7 x 33.9 cm (9 5/16 x 13 3/8 in.); matted: 45.7 x 55.9 cm (18 x 22 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Joseph M. Erdelac 1992.214 Reproduced with permission from the Willard and Barbara Morgan Archives
title: Charles Weidman, Lynchtown (Humphrey-Weidman Group)
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creation date: 1938
creation date earliest: 1938
creation date latest: 1983
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creditline: Gift of Joseph M. Erdelac
copyright: Reproduced with permission from the Willard and Barbara Morgan Archives
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culture: America
technique: gelatin silver print
department: Photography
collection: PH - American 1900-1950
type: Photograph
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CREATORS
* Barbara Morgan (American, 1900–1992) - artist
Barbara Morgan American, 1900-1992
Barbara Morgan (born Barbara Brooks Johnson) was raised in southern California and studied painting and printmaking at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 1925 she married writer and photographer Willard Morgan and joined the art faculty at UCLA, teaching there until 1930, when she and her husband moved to New York City. Morgan worked primarily as a painter until 1935, then turned to photography.
During a career that spanned more than five decades, Morgan became known for her dramatic photographs of modern dance and for her abstract light drawings, photomontages, portraits, and nature studies. Interested in Eastern philosophy and Native American culture, she sought to express in her work the "inner life forces" of nature. Morgan's celebrated images of Martha Graham, José Limon, Valerie Bettis, and Merce Cunningham demonstrate her interpretive approach by transcending simple documentation of dance performances to create photographic expressions of great feeling, imagination, and spirit. M.M.
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measurements: Image: 23.7 x 33.9 cm (9 5/16 x 13 3/8 in.); Matted: 45.7 x 55.9 cm (18 x 22 in.)
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inscription: Written in pencil on recto: "Barbara Morgan [signed] -1938 / Charles Weidman - Lynchtown"; in black ink on verso: "CHARLES WEIDMAN-Lynchtown-1938 (Humphrey-Weidman Group) / Barbara Morgan [signed] / Archivally Printed - 1976 / B.B.M."; in pencil: "9 1/4 x 13 3/8 on 16 x 20"
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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).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'CMA, October 27, 1992 - January 3, 1993: "Signs of Affection: Gifts Honoring the Museum\'s Seventy-Fifth Anniversary," CMA Bulletin, 80 (February 1993), p. 69, no. 114.', 'opening_date': '1992-10-27T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1992.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 2 (February 1993): 38–79.
page number: Mentioned: p. 69
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25161388
Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.
page number: Reproduced: P. 249
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