id:			158984
accession number:	1995.204.10
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1995.204.10
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"In a Dream...": Untitled, 1989. James Welling (American, b. 1951). Platinum/palladium print; image: 27.8 x 19.3 cm (10 15/16 x 7 5/8 in.); paper: 35.6 x 27.8 cm (14 x 10 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Anonymous Donor and Photographers + Friends United Against AIDS 1995.204.10

title:				Untitled
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series:				"In a Dream..."
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creation date:			1989
creation date earliest:		1989
creation date latest:		1989
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creditline:			Anonymous Donor and Photographers + Friends United Against AIDS
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culture:	America, 20th century
technique:	platinum/palladium print
department:	Photography
collection:	PH - American 1951-Present
type:		Portfolio
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CREATORS

* James Welling (American, b. 1951)  - artist
James Welling American, 1951-

James Welling first became known for his project Diary of Elizabeth C. Dixon, 1840-41 (1822-72)/Connecticut Landscapes (1977-86). As the title suggests, Welling took for his subject a young woman's 19th-century travel diary, making intimate closeup photographs of pages filled with handwritten script, desiccated leaves, ferns, and other mementos. This retrospective use of photography, as a means to invoke the past by providing an allegorical distance in the present, characterizes his approach to the medium.
	Irony and humor are also common elements of Welling's photographs. For a series begun in the early 1980s, he made small black-and-white images that suggested the jewel-like physicality and believability of a daguerreotype. Upon closer inspection, the works revealed themselves to be nothing more than crumpled aluminum. The visual pun, when realized, prompted viewers to recall the tradition of landscape photography and simultaneously retain a distance from the subjects. His Railroad Photographs (1986-91) and Architectural Photographs (1988-90) invite similar examinations of photography's technical preconditions for representation of space as they are rooted in Renaissance perspectival traditions.
	Welling (born in Hartford) studied at Carnegie-Mellon University (1969-71) and received a B.F.A./M.F.A. from the California Institute of the Arts (1974). He has numerous publications and has exhibited throughout the United States and Europe. Welling lives in New York. A.W.
* Portfolio II published by Photographers + Friends United Against AIDS  - publisher

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measurements: Image: 27.8 x 19.3 cm (10 15/16 x 7 5/8 in.); Paper: 35.6 x 27.8 cm (14 x 10 15/16 in.)
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	inscription:	Written in pencil on recto: "JW Untitled 1989 11/25"
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Anonymous Donor
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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. <em>Catalogue of Photography</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.
	page number: 	Reproduced: P. 372
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