id: 156505 accession number: 1992.220 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1992.220 updated: 2023-03-14 12:01:47.731000 Animal Locomotion: Emptying a Bucket of Water, 1887. Eadweard J. Muybridge (American, 1830–1904). Collotype; image: 22.5 x 34 cm (8 7/8 x 13 3/8 in.); paper: 47.4 x 60.4 cm (18 11/16 x 23 3/4 in.); matted: 50.8 x 61 cm (20 x 24 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, in honor of Evan H. Turner 1992.220 title: Emptying a Bucket of Water title in original language: series: Animal Locomotion series in original language: creation date: 1887 creation date earliest: 1887 creation date latest: 1887 current location: 230 Photography creditline: Gift of Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, in honor of Evan H. Turner copyright: --- culture: America, 19th century technique: collotype department: Photography collection: PH - American 19th Century type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Eadweard J. Muybridge (American, 1830–1904) - artist Eadweard J. Muybridge (Edward James Muggeridge) American, b. England, 1830-1904 Around 1852 Edward James Muggeridge, born in Kingston-on-Thames in Surrey, immigrated to California and by 1856 had established himself in the book business in San Francisco. He learned the art of photography in 1867, possibly from his friend Silas Selleck. Soon after, he emerged as the "artist-photographer" Eadweard Muybridge. Also known as "Helios," the proprietor of a mobile photo wagon called the Flying Studio, he became associated with Selleck's cosmopolitan gallery. Muybridge was one of the best early western landscape photographers. His work included a coastal survey for the U.S. government, as well as topographical, landscape, and portrait photographs made from Alaska to Central America. His large wet plate views of Yosemite rank with those of Carleton Watkins as among the finest ever taken, and his multiprint panoramas of San Francisco are highly prized. In 1872 Muybridge began the experimental study that occupied him for the remainder of his life and for which he is best known. It stemmed from a commission by former California governor Leland Stanford, Jr., who asked him to capture photographically the movement of a galloping horse. Muybridge quickly became a renowned lecturer and authority on the photography of motion, developing one of the first camera shutters in 1869 and the zoogyroscope (an early machine for projecting pictures that appeared to move) in 1880. His work contributed to the development of the motion picture. Muybridge continued his investigations for three years at the University of Pennsylvania (1883-86) and in 1887 published the result of some 15 years of accumulated research in the 11 volumes of his immense study, Animal Locomotion, which consisted of 19,347 negatives. Muybridge's own stride was broken temporarily by his trial in 1874 for the murder of his wife's lover, a charge that he acknowledged but of which he was acquitted. T.W.F. * University of Pennsylvania - publisher --- measurements: Image: 22.5 x 34 cm (8 7/8 x 13 3/8 in.); Paper: 47.4 x 60.4 cm (18 11/16 x 23 3/4 in.); Matted: 50.8 x 61 cm (20 x 24 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- 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). title: The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2006-06-09T00:00:00 The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (June 9-August 20, 2006). title: Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2007-06-24T00:00:00 Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 24-September 16, 2007). title: Photographs in Ink opening date: 2022-11-20T05:00:00 Photographs in Ink. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 20, 2022-April 2, 2023). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * 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. 116.
"CMA Annual Report, 1992" (Cleveland, CMA, 1993) p. 228 repr.
MOCA Cleveland (6/9/2006 - 8/20/2006): "The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art", no. 45, p. 118, repr. p. 60.
The Cleveland Museum of Art (6/24/07 - 9/16/07); "Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art", no exhibition catalogue. --- PROVENANCE (Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, NY) date: footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: October 19, 1992 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Eadweard J. Muybridge initially used horses to capture motion as separate slices of time faster than the human eye could perceive them, then moved on to study other animal and human movements. Everyday activities, like emptying a bucket of water, were broken down and sequenced back-to-back. This series was commissioned by the University of Pennsylvania and intended to diagnose dysfunction in human movement by allowing each consecutive action to be studied in isolation. The university’s desire for distribution called for the use of collotype. The process had been recently improved to the point where editions of up to 1,000 were possible, making it an attractive option for publishers. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Muybridge, Eadweard. Muybridge's Complete Human and Animal Locomotion: All 781 Plates from the 1887 Animal Locomotion by Eadweard Muybridge. 1979. page number: pl. 403 url: "1992 Annual Report." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 6 (1993): 215-95. page number: Reproduced: p. 228 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161418 Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. page number: Reproduced: P. 250 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1992.220/1992.220_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1992.220/1992.220_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1992.220/1992.220_full.tif