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        "tombstone": "Doris Humphrey - My Red Fires, 1938. Barbara Morgan (American, 1900\u20131992). Gelatin silver print, toned; image: 27.3 x 35 cm (10 3/4 x 13 3/4 in.); mounted: 48.4 x 40.6 cm (19 1/16 x 16 in.); matted: 55.9 x 66 cm (22 x 26 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 2000.19",
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        "title": "Doris Humphrey - My Red Fires",
        "creation_date": "1938",
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        "technique": "gelatin silver print, toned",
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        "department": "Photography",
        "collection": "PH - American 1951-Present",
        "type": "Photograph",
        "measurements": "Image: 27.3 x 35 cm (10 3/4 x 13 3/4 in.); Mounted: 48.4 x 40.6 cm (19 1/16 x 16 in.); Matted: 55.9 x 66 cm (22 x 26 in.)",
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                "inscription": "written in pencil on recto: \"Barbara Morgan [signed]/ Doris Humphrey/ Matriarch/ Red Fires/ 505\"",
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        "description": "Sweeping contours and dramatic contrasts of light and shadow powerfully convey the intensity of focus in the pose and expression of dancer Doris Humphrey (1895-1958). The recording of modern dance, which occupied Morgan during the late 1930s and early 1940s, is the most significant achievement of her 50-year career as a photo-grapher. Key to her success in capturing the essential gesture was her extensive knowledge of dance, gained through careful observation. With her camera poised to fuse movement, light, and space, Morgan was able to anticipate and capture the most telling instant. The artist once remarked, \"The ecstatic gesture happens swiftly, and is gone.\"",
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                "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, \u201cRecent Acquisitions Press Release,\u201d June 19, 2000, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 3",
                "url": "https://archive.org/details/cmapr4343"
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        "creditline": "John L. Severance Fund",
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                "description": "Barbara Morgan (American, 1900\u20131992)",
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                "biography": "Barbara Morgan American, 1900-1992\r\n\r\nBarbara Morgan (born Barbara Brooks Johnson) was raised in southern California and studied painting and printmaking at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 1925 she married writer and photographer Willard Morgan and joined the art faculty at UCLA, teaching there until 1930, when she and her husband moved to New York City. Morgan worked primarily as a painter until 1935, then turned to photography.\r\n\tDuring a career that spanned more than five decades, Morgan became known for her dramatic photographs of modern dance and for her abstract light drawings, photomontages, portraits, and nature studies. Interested in Eastern philosophy and Native American culture, she sought to express in her work the \"inner life forces\" of nature. Morgan's celebrated images of Martha Graham, Jos\u00e9 Limon, Valerie Bettis, and Merce Cunningham demonstrate her interpretive approach by transcending simple documentation of dance performances to create photographic expressions of great feeling, imagination, and spirit. M.M.",
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                "birth_year": "1900",
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        "accession_date": "2000-06-05T00:00:00",
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        "updated_at": "2026-03-27 00:09:30.007000"
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