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accession number: 1992.335
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Glass - Shadow Abstraction #2, c. 1930s. Shikanosuke Yagaki (Japanese, 1897–1966). Gelatin silver print; image: 19.6 x 27.5 cm (7 11/16 x 10 13/16 in.); matted: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1992.335
title: Glass - Shadow Abstraction #2
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creation date: c. 1930s
creation date earliest: 1930
creation date latest: 1939
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creditline: John L. Severance Fund
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culture: Japan, 20th century
technique: gelatin silver print
department: Photography
collection: PH - Japanese 20th Century
type: Photograph
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CREATORS
* Shikanosuke Yagaki (Japanese, 1897–1966) - artist
Shikanosuke Yagaki Japanese, 1897-1966 Born in Kyoto, Shikanosuke Yagaki was a banker who became interested in photography as a teenager. After graduating in 1920 from Doshisha University, where he studied English literature, Yagaki joined the Konoike banking establishment that would later become the Sanwa Bank. In the 1930s he was active in several of the many amateur photography clubs then flourishing in Japan: the Sanwa Bank Photo Club, the Karashishi-kai Photo Group, and the Kyoto Leica Club. He showed his work widely throughout Japan, including the International Photo Salons and the All Japan Association of Photographic Societies exhibitions. His work was published in Asahi Camera Magazine (1933) and Leica Gashu (1938), Japan's first photography book. Yagaki was known for his masterful rendering of light and shadow, and his use of high contrast, angles, and common subject matter aligned him with the modernists of Europe and the United States. M.M.
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measurements: Image: 19.6 x 27.5 cm (7 11/16 x 10 13/16 in.); Matted: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.)
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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. 139.', '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
Family of the artist, Kyoto
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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. 400
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