id: 156960
accession number: 1993.12
share license status: Copyrighted
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1993.12
updated: 2024-03-26 02:00:16.764000
Song Without Words: Matchstick Cove, San Mateo County, California, 1947, printed 1949. Minor White (American, 1908–1976). Gelatin silver print; image: 9 x 11.7 cm (3 9/16 x 4 5/8 in.); matted: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1993.12 © 1982 Trustees of Princeton University
title: Matchstick Cove, San Mateo County, California
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series: Song Without Words
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creation date: 1947, printed 1949
creation date earliest: 1947
creation date latest: 1947
current location:
creditline: Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
copyright: © 1982 Trustees of Princeton University
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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
* Minor White (American, 1908–1976) - artist
Minor White American, 1908-1976 Minor Martin White (born in Minneapolis) was a photographer, poet, and teacher who worked in photographic sequences to achieve greater expressive power. Several years after graduating from the University of Minnesota with a major in botany and a minor in English, White moved to Portland where he joined the Oregon Camera Club. Interested in photography since his youth, he worked as an assistant in a photography studio at night and in 1938 served as a creative photographer for the Works Progress Administration. Following service in the U.S. Army Intelligence Corps (1942-45), White moved to New York where he studied art history with Meyer Shapiro at Columbia University (19450-46). In 1946 he met Alfred Stieglitz, whose ideas about photographic equivalents had a deep impact on his work. Like Stieglitz, White sought to express inner feelings and beliefs through his work. Around this time he began producing sequences of images that were arranged for their allusive or metaphorical meaning rather than for narrative content, a practice he continued throughout his career. In 1952 White helped found Aperture magazine, serving as its editor until l975. He took a position as curator of exhibitions at George Eastman House in Rochester in the early 1950s, working there until 1957. While at Eastman House he also served as editor for the museum's publication, Image. In 1955 White began teaching at the Rochester Institute of Technology, leaving in 1965 to join the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Over the years he became a well-respected and influential teacher, and continued to teach at mit until 1974. During the 1950s White became interested in mysticism, Eastern philosophy, and Gestalt psychology, all of which had an impact on his work and teaching. In 1962 he was a founding member of the Society for Photographic Education and in 1970 was awarded a fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. M.M.
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measurements: Image: 9 x 11.7 cm (3 9/16 x 4 5/8 in.); Matted: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.)
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inscription: Written in pencil on recto of mount: "8"; in pencil on verso of mount: "Song without Words #8 / Minor White [signed]." "200.27"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: American Space: Landscape Photography 1900-1950
opening date: 2001-01-06T00:00:00
American Space: Landscape Photography 1900-1950. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 6-May 23, 2001).
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); Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh, PA (October 3, 2009-January 3, 2010).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'CMA, September 13 - November 27, 1994: "Recent Acquisitions: Prints, Drawings, Photographs," no exhibition catalogue.', 'opening_date': '1994-09-13T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; January 3-May 23, 2001. "American Space: Landscape Photography, 1900-1950."', 'opening_date': '2001-01-03T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'The Cleveland Museum of Art (6/24/07 - 9/16/07) and Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittburgh, PA (10/3/2009 - 1/3/2010); "Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art", no exhibition catalogue.', 'opening_date': '2007-06-24T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
(Russ Anderson Fine Arts, Ltd., Aptos, CA)
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: February 17, 1993
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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. 389
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