id: 159056
accession number: 1995.258
share license status: Copyrighted
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1995.258
updated: 2024-03-26 02:00:28.350000
Somnambulist: Untitled, 1966. Ralph Gibson (American, 1939-). Gelatin silver print; image: 31.9 x 21 cm (12 9/16 x 8 1/4 in.); paper: 35.5 x 27.7 cm (14 x 10 7/8 in.); matted: 55.9 x 45.7 cm (22 x 18 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Adam Sutner 1995.258 © Ralph Gibson
title: Untitled
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series: Somnambulist
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creation date: 1966
creation date earliest: 1966
creation date latest: 1966
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creditline: Gift of Adam Sutner
copyright: © Ralph Gibson
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culture: America, 20th century
technique: gelatin silver print
department: Photography
collection: PH - American 1951-Present
type: Photograph
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CREATORS
* Ralph Gibson (American, 1939-) - artist
Ralph Gibson American, 1939-
Ralph Gibson is best known for his photographic books. His images often incorporate fragments with erotic and mysterious undertones, building narrative meaning through surreal juxtaposition and contextualization. Characteristic of his sensibility is a trilogy, The Somnambulist (1970), Déjà-Vu (1973), and Days at Sea (1975), published by Lustrum Press, which Gibson founded in 1969. Other titles from his more than 15 published monographs include Syntax (1983), Tropism (1987), L'Anonyme (1987), and L'Histoire de France (1991), with an introduction by Marguerite Duras.
Born in Los Angeles, Gibson took up photography while serving in the U.S. Navy (1956–60), studied at the San Francisco Art Institute (1960–62), and later worked as an assistant to both Dorothea Lange and Robert Frank. With Frank, Gibson worked on the film Me and My Brother (1967–69) and as cameraman on Conversations in Vermont (1969). That same year he moved to New York City, where he established a studio and his press. Gibson has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1973, 1975) and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1985), a Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (daad) Exchange, Berlin (1977), a New York Creative Artists Public Service Grant (1977), and a Grande Medaille de la Ville d'Arles (1994). He was made an Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government (1986) and awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Maryland (1991). Gibson divides his time between New York and France. A.W.
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measurements: Image: 31.9 x 21 cm (12 9/16 x 8 1/4 in.); Paper: 35.5 x 27.7 cm (14 x 10 7/8 in.); Matted: 55.9 x 45.7 cm (22 x 18 in.)
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inscription: Written in pencil on verso: "Ralph Gibson [signed] 1966 18/25"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 1996-11-24T05:00:00
Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 24, 1996-February 2, 1997).
title: The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2006-06-09T00:00:00
The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (June 9-August 20, 2006).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'CMA, November 20,1996 - February 2, 1997: "Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art."', 'opening_date': '1997-02-02T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'MOCA Cleveland (6/9/2006 - 8/20/2006): "The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art", no. 105, p. 122.', 'opening_date': '2006-06-09T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
Adam Sutner, Ft. Lee, NJ
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: March 4, 1996
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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. 182
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