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accession number:	1993.142
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Home Portrait, Ruth Anderson, 1940. Paul Lewis Anderson (American, 1880–1956). Gelatin silver bromide print; image: 11.7 x 8.4 cm (4 5/8 x 3 5/16 in.); paper: 13.4 x 9.6 cm (5 1/4 x 3 3/4 in.); matted: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1993.142

title:				Home Portrait, Ruth Anderson
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creation date:			1940
creation date earliest:		1940
creation date latest:		1940
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creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
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culture:	America
technique:	gelatin silver bromide print
department:	Photography
collection:	PH - American 1900-1950
type:		Photograph
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CREATORS

* Paul Lewis Anderson (American, 1880–1956)  - artist
Paul Lewis Anderson American, 1880-1956

Photographer and writer Paul Lewis Anderson was born in Trenton, New Jersey. In 1907, six years after graduating from Lehigh University with a degree in electrical engineering, he took up photography, inspired by images in Alfred Stieglitz's magazine Camera Work. Within two years Anderson's pictures were being published in Harper's and American Photography, and in 1910 he left his job with the New York telephone company to open a portrait studio in East Orange, New Jersey.
	Although not a member of the Photo-Secession, Anderson was a strong supporter of pictorial photography. In 1913 he became a contributor to Edward R. Dickson's new magazine Platinum Print (one of his articles was published in the first issue, dated October 1913) and by the following year was listed in the masthead as an "Associate," along with photographers Karl F. Struss, Clarence H. White, and several others. Anderson's first book, Pictorial Landscape-Photography, appeared in 1914. That same year he became an instructor at the Clarence H. White School of Photography, where he taught until 1918. His second book, Pictorial Photography: Its Principles and Practice, was published in 1917, followed two years later by The Fine Art of Photography.
	In 1925 Anderson began penning historical novels, largely putting aside his photography writing. Eight years later he returned to the field, contributing to American Photography and The Camera. He continued to publish articles on pictorial photography until his retirement in 1944. M.M.
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measurements: Image: 11.7 x 8.4 cm (4 5/8 x 3 5/16 in.); Paper: 13.4 x 9.6 cm (5 1/4 x 3 3/4 in.); Matted: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.)
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	inscription:	Written in pencil on recto of mount: "Paul L. Anderson [signed]-1940"; in pencil on verso: "MK 1800-/#4128"; typed on label on verso of mount: "Title-Home Portrait-Ruth A/Paul L. Anderson/36 Washington Street/East Orange/New Jersey/Print-chlorobromide"; in pencil on label on verso: "(Vitara Projection/Grade E)"
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PROVENANCE

	Clarence Koch (close friend of the artist)
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CITATIONS

	“1993 Annual Report.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 81, no. 6 (July 1994): 143–218.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 162
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25161457

	Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. <em>Catalogue of Photography</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.
	page number: 	Reproduced: P. 86
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