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accession number: 1995.189
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The Tongass: Alaska's Vanishing Rain Forest: "I Like the Look of a Clear-Cut"--Attributed to a Forest Supervisor at a Public Meeting, 1986. Robert Glenn Ketchum (American, 1947-). Silver dye bleach process color print (Cibachrome) (should always remain in an 8 ply mat); image: 59.4 x 75.2 cm (23 3/8 x 29 5/8 in.); paper: 61 x 76.2 cm (24 x 30 in.); matted: 81.3 x 96.5 cm (32 x 38 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Advocacy Arts Foundation 1995.189
title: "I Like the Look of a Clear-Cut"--Attributed to a Forest Supervisor at a Public Meeting
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series: The Tongass: Alaska's Vanishing Rain Forest
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creation date: 1986
creation date earliest: 1986
creation date latest: 1986
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creditline: Gift of the Advocacy Arts Foundation
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culture: America, 20th century
technique: silver dye bleach process color print (Cibachrome) (should always remain in an 8 ply mat)
department: Photography
collection: PH - American 1951-Present
type: Photograph
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CREATORS
* Robert Glenn Ketchum (American, 1947-) - artist
Robert Glenn Ketchum American, 1947-
Robert Glenn Ketchum (born in Los Angeles) is known for his photography as well as his involvement with the Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies (1976-82) and the National Park Foundation (since 1980), serving as curator of photography for both organizations. Drawing inspiration from the works of Paul Caponigro, Ketchum culls his subjects from nature and uses his work to express environmental concerns. He has worked in both 35mm and 4 x 5-inch formats, in black and white and color.
A student of Robert Fichter, Robert Heinecken, and Edmund Teske, Ketchum earned a B.A. in design from ucla (1970). In 1970 he founded the photography workshop at the Sun Valley Center for the Arts and Humanities in Idaho and then continued his education at the Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara and the California Institute of the Arts (M.F.A., 1973). He began teaching at CalArts in 1975, but left his post the following year to work full-time for lacps. In 1977, on a commission from the Friends of the International Ocean Institute, Ketchum traveled to 10 countries with Elisabeth Mann Borgese (German novelist Thomas Mann's daughter) to examine critically the environmental concerns of those countries. Since 1982 he has worked to develop the Appalachian Environmental Arts Center.
Ketchum has received many awards, including two grants for curatorial research from the National Park Foundation (1978, 1979), a materials grant from Ciba-Geigy for Cibachrome printing and masking research (1979), and the ucla Alumni Association's Award of Excellence (1993). In 1985 the Lila Acheson Wallace Fund commissioned Ketchum and his then-wife, Carey D. Ketchum, to photograph the Tongass National Forest in Alaska, which was being destroyed by timber-cutting practices sanctioned by the U.S. Forest Service. Originally meant to illustrate legislation proposed to protect the region, the images also became the focus of one of Ketchum's many books, The Tongass: Alaska's Vanishing Rain Forest (1987). In 1986 he was commissioned by the Akron Art Museum, in cooperation with the National Park Service, to photograph the Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area. These images were exhibited at the Akron Art Museum and published as part of a retrospective book, The Legacy of Wildness (1993). Ketchum lives in Los Angeles. A.W.
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measurements: Image: 59.4 x 75.2 cm (23 3/8 x 29 5/8 in.); Paper: 61 x 76.2 cm (24 x 30 in.); Matted: 81.3 x 96.5 cm (32 x 38 in.)
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edition of the work: artist proof 7
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inscription: Written in pencil on verso: "Robert Glenn Ketchum [signed] / "I like the look of a clear-cut" -- attributed to a Forest Supervisor at a public meeting / 1986 / Artist Proof 7"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Robert Glenn Ketchum: Landscape Photographs
opening date: 1996-03-29T04:00:00
Robert Glenn Ketchum: Landscape Photographs. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 29-June 2, 1996).
title: Human Intervention: Contemporary Landscape Photography
opening date: 2001-05-26T00:00:00
Human Intervention: Contemporary Landscape Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 26-October 10, 2001).
title: Contemporary Landscape Photography
opening date: 2011-03-26T00:00:00
Contemporary Landscape Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 26-August 14, 2011).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
Jack B. Ketchum, Los Angeles, CA
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: December 4, 1995
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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. 211
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