id: 156898 accession number: 1993.100 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1993.100 updated: 2024-03-26 02:00:16.606000 Broughton Castle, Oxfordshire, England, 1977. Michael Kenna (British, b. 1953). Gelatin silver print, sepia toned; image: 15.2 x 24.2 cm (6 x 9 1/2 in.); matted: 45.7 x 55.9 cm (18 x 22 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of William A. Chilcote and Barbara S. Kaplan in honor of Evan H. Turner 1993.100 © Michael Kenna title: Broughton Castle, Oxfordshire, England title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1977 creation date earliest: 1977 creation date latest: 1977 current location: creditline: Gift of William A. Chilcote and Barbara S. Kaplan in honor of Evan H. Turner copyright: © Michael Kenna --- culture: England, 20th century technique: gelatin silver print, sepia toned department: Photography collection: PH - British 20th Century type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Michael Kenna (British, b. 1953) - artist Michael Kenna American, b. England, 1953- Mystery and a sense of Gothic romance inhabit the photographs of Michael Kenna. It is not insignificant that his first camera was a Diana box camera, given to him in 1966, because the inherent soft-focus of that simple apparatus characterizes his later medium- and large-format works. He is known primarily for his atmospheric landscapes and astute handling of light, line, texture, and form. Ruth Bernhard, whom Kenna met in 1978, and Ansel Adams, with whom he worked as a technical assistant (1982, 1983), influenced his sensibility. Born in Widnes, Kenna was educated at St. Joseph's College (1965-72), the Banbury School of Art (1972-73), and the London College of Printing (H.N.D. in photography, 1976). From 1973-77 he worked for magnum Photos in London and as assistant to Anthony Blake at cbs. In 1977 he moved to the United States, settling in San Francisco. Kenna has had well over 40 one-person and more than 80 group exhibitions since 1978 throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan. Among his awards are the Imogen Cunningham Award (1981), the Art in Public Buildings Award from the California Arts Commission (1987), and the Institute for Aesthetic Development Award, Pasadena (1989). Kenna's photographs have illustrated limited-edition printings of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic tale The Hound of the Baskervilles (1985, 1986). Additional publications include Michael Kenna, Photographs (1984), Michael Kenna 1976-1986 (1987), Night Walk (1988), Le Désert de Retz (1990), Michael Kenna: A Twenty Year Retrospective (1990), and The Elkhorn Slough and Moss Landing. Photographs by Michael Kenna (1991). Kenna lives in San Francisco. A.W. --- measurements: Image: 15.2 x 24.2 cm (6 x 9 1/2 in.); Matted: 45.7 x 55.9 cm (18 x 22 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in pencil on recto: "1977 Michael Kenna [signed]"; in pencil on verso: "BROUGHTON CASTLE-OXFORDSHIRE- / ENGLAND" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': '"1992 Annual Report," CMA Bulletin, 80 (July 1993), repr. p. 216.', 'opening_date': '1993-07-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, September 13 - November 27, 1994: "Recent Acquisitions: Prints, Drawings, Photographs," no exhibition catalogue.', 'opening_date': '1994-09-13T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE (Halsted Gallery) date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS "1992 Annual Report." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 6 (1993): 215-95. page number: Reproduced: p. 216 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. 207 url: --- IMAGES