id: 159644 accession number: 1996.358 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1996.358 updated: 2023-01-11 08:04:18.916000 Triangle Composition (Harry Losee), 1922. Jane Reece (American, 1869–1961). Gelatin silver print; image: 24 x 19 cm (9 7/16 x 7 1/2 in.); paper: 25 x 20.2 cm (9 13/16 x 7 15/16 in.); matted: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1996.358 title: Triangle Composition (Harry Losee) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1922 creation date earliest: 1922 creation date latest: 1922 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: America, 20th century technique: gelatin silver print department: Photography collection: PH - American 1900-1950 type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Jane Reece (American, 1869–1961) - artist --- measurements: Image: 24 x 19 cm (9 7/16 x 7 1/2 in.); Paper: 25 x 20.2 cm (9 13/16 x 7 15/16 in.); Matted: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Shadows and Dreams: Pictorialist Photography in America opening date: 2015-09-05T00:00:00 Shadows and Dreams: Pictorialist Photography in America. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (September 5, 2015-January 17, 2016). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * The Soul Unbound: The Photographs of Jane Reece. Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH (September 20-November 30, 1997). --- PROVENANCE Dayton Art Institute, Ohio date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Jane Reece, who lived and worked in Dayton, Ohio, exhibited her photography in salons and exhibitions around the world. digital description: In 1922 Jane Reece produced a handful of portraits of modern dancer Henry Losee (1901–1952) that blazed new trails both by producing a photogram (cameraless photography) and by incorporating it into a traditional photograph. The background here never existed in three dimensions; it was created by placing tissue or celluloid overlays on photosensitive paper. Each photogram is unique, so the background varies slightly in each print. Whether Reese was inspired by Cubist painting, the Vorticist photographs of Alvin Langdon Coburn, or the stage sets and lighting of avant-garde dance companies, the result is a daring experiment that moved Pictorialism toward modernism. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Reece, Jane, and Dominique H. Vasseur. The Soul Unbound: The Photographs of Jane Reece. Dayton, OH: Dayton Art Institute, 1997. page number: cat. no. 34 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 308 url: --- IMAGES