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accession number: 1992.239
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Pier 29, San Francisco, 1937. Sonya Noskowiak (American, 1900–1975). Gelatin silver print; image: 18.8 x 24.1 cm (7 3/8 x 9 1/2 in.); matted: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Louis D. Kacalieff, M.D. Fund 1992.239
title: Pier 29, San Francisco
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creation date: 1937
creation date earliest: 1937
creation date latest: 1937
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creditline: Louis D. Kacalieff, M.D. Fund
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culture: America, 20th century
technique: gelatin silver print
department: Photography
collection: PH - American 1900-1950
type: Photograph
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CREATORS
* Sonya Noskowiak (American, 1900–1975) - artist
Sonya Noskowiak American, b. Germany, 1900-1975
Born in Leipzig and raised in Chile, Sonya Noskowiak moved to California with her family in 1915. While working as a receptionist in the studio of pictorial photographer Johan Hagemeyer in the late 1920s, she met Edward Weston. From 1929-34 Noskowiak worked as Weston's darkroom assistant and studied with him. His work and his advocacy of "straight," unmanipulated photography were strong influences, and in 1932 Noskowiak joined him, Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Willard Van Dyke, and others to found Group f/64.
In the group's first exhibition that year at the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco, Noskowiak exhibited photographs of natural objects (rocks, leaves, and sand) that emphasized their form and texture. Over the following years she concentrated on architectural and industrial subjects and in 1935 opened her own studio in San Francisco, working as a portrait, fashion, and commercial photographer. Noskowiak was active as a photographer until the mid-1960s. In 1978 the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, organized a retrospective exhibition of her work. M.M.
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measurements: Image: 18.8 x 24.1 cm (7 3/8 x 9 1/2 in.); Matted: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.)
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inscription: Written in pencil on verso: "8 -9th [circled]"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Selected Acquisitions
opening date: 1993-02-09T05:00:00
Selected Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 9-April 11, 1993).
title: Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 1996-11-24T05:00:00
Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 24, 1996-February 2, 1997).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'CMA, January 28 - March 15, 1992: "Selected Acquisitions," CMA Bulletin, 80 (February 1993), p. 69, no. 122.', 'opening_date': '1992-01-28T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'CMA, November 20,1996 - February 2, 1997: "Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art."', 'opening_date': '1997-02-02T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
Arthur Noskowiak (the artist's brother)
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.
page number: Reproduced: P. 237
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