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accession number:	1995.204.11
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1995.204.11
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"In a Dream...": Poppies, 1989. Frank Majore (American, 1948-). Silver dye bleach process color print (Cibachrome); image: 61 x 50.7 cm (24 x 19 15/16 in.); matted: 81.3 x 71.1 cm (32 x 28 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Anonymous Donor and Photographers + Friends United Against AIDS 1995.204.11

title:				Poppies
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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:	silver dye bleach process color print (Cibachrome)
department:	Photography
collection:	PH - American 1951-Present
type:		Portfolio
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CREATORS

* Frank Majore (American, 1948-)  - artist
Frank Majore American, 1948-

Frank Majore achieved recognition in the 1980s, one of several artists who use photography to question issues of representation, commodification, and mediated experience as it has supplanted direct interaction in late 20th-century society. He draws upon a commercial vocabulary acquired as an art director, putting a sleek, seductive gloss on his photographs as a way to mimic the aesthetics of popular advertising.
	Throughout most of the 1980s, Majore made "commodity fetishes": Cibachromes depicting revolving lipsticks, closeup views of faces appropriated from television, glistening golf balls, and skyscrapers printed against exaggerated blue-violet hues. In 1990 he began to work in black and white, extending his subjects to include landscape and abstract imagery. This more monochromatic work reflects an interest with ethereal, symbolic subjects such as clouds, stars, and light. "There are only three things worthy of making art about," Majore has said, "sex, death, and beauty."
	Majore (born in Richmond Hill, New York) studied at the Philadelphia College of Art (B.S., 1969) and is a self-taught photographer. His awards include fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts (1985) and the Aaron Siskind Foundation (1993) and a Tiffany Award from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation (1993). He lives in New York. A.W.
* Portfolio II published by Photographers + Friends United Against AIDS  - publisher

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measurements: Image: 61 x 50.7 cm (24 x 19 15/16 in.); Matted: 81.3 x 71.1 cm (32 x 28 in.)
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	inscription:	Written in pencil on verso: "11/25 / 'Poppies' / Frank Majore [signed]  / 1989"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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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. 228
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