id:			157321
accession number:	1994.187
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1994.187
updated:		2024-03-26 02:00:18.803000

Untitled (Landscape near Watsonville, California), c. 1879. Eadweard J. Muybridge (American, 1830–1904). Albumen print from wet collodion negative; image: 13.7 x 23.3 cm (5 3/8 x 9 3/16 in.); matted: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1994.187

title:				Untitled (Landscape near Watsonville, California)
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creation date:			c. 1879
creation date earliest:		1870
creation date latest:		1879
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creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
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culture:	America, 19th century
technique:	albumen print from wet collodion negative
department:	Photography
collection:	Photography
type:		Photograph
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CREATORS

* Eadweard J. Muybridge (American, 1830–1904)  - artist
Eadweard J. Muybridge (Edward James Muggeridge) American, b. England, 1830-1904

Around 1852 Edward James Muggeridge, born in Kingston-on-Thames in Surrey, immigrated to California and by 1856 had established himself in the book business in San Francisco. He learned the art of photography in 1867, possibly from his friend Silas Selleck. Soon after, he emerged as the "artist-photographer" Eadweard Muybridge. Also known as "Helios," the proprietor of a mobile photo wagon called the Flying Studio, he became associated with Selleck's cosmopolitan gallery.
	Muybridge was one of the best early western landscape photographers. His work included a coastal survey for the U.S. government, as well as topographical, landscape, and portrait photographs made from Alaska to Central America. His large wet plate views of Yosemite rank with those of Carleton Watkins as among the finest ever taken, and his multiprint panoramas of San Francisco are highly prized.
	In 1872 Muybridge began the experimental study that occupied him for the remainder of his life and for which he is best known. It stemmed from a commission by former California governor Leland Stanford, Jr., who asked him to capture photographically the movement of a galloping horse. Muybridge quickly became a renowned lecturer and authority on the photography of motion, developing one of the first camera shutters in 1869 and the zoogyroscope (an early machine for projecting pictures that appeared to move) in 1880. His work contributed to the development of the motion picture.
	Muybridge continued his investigations for three years at the University of Pennsylvania (1883-86) and in 1887 published the result of some 15 years of accumulated research in the 11 volumes of his immense study, Animal Locomotion, which consisted of 19,347 negatives. Muybridge's own stride was broken temporarily by his trial in 1874 for the murder of his wife's lover, a charge that he acknowledged but of which he was acquitted. T.W.F.
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measurements: Image: 13.7 x 23.3 cm (5 3/8 x 9 3/16 in.); Matted: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.)
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	inscription:	Written in light brown ink on verso of mount: "MUYBRIDGE, Photo. San Francisco"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change
	opening date:   2010-04-10T00:00:00
	<i>Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change</i>. Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (organizer) (April 10-July 18, 2010); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (February 26-June 7, 2011).

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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': 'Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (4/10/2010 - 7/18/2010) and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA (2/26/2011 - 6/7/2011):  "Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change"', 'opening_date': '2010-04-10T00:00:00'}

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. <em>Catalogue of Photography</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.
	page number: 	Reproduced: P. 250
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IMAGES

web:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1994.187/1994.187_web.jpg
print:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1994.187/1994.187_print.jpg
full:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1994.187/1994.187_full.tif