id: 165408 accession number: 2007.26 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2007.26 updated: 2024-03-26 02:01:04.454000 Mullein in Bloom, c. 1897–1899. Eugène Atget (French, 1857–1927). Albumen print; image: 21.8 x 17.6 cm (8 9/16 x 6 15/16 in.); paper: 21.8 x 18 cm (8 9/16 x 7 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 2007.26 title: Mullein in Bloom title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1897–1899 creation date earliest: 1892 creation date latest: 1904 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: France, 20th century technique: albumen print department: Photography collection: Photography type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Eugène Atget (French, 1857–1927) - artist Eugène Atget French, 1857-1927 Relatively unknown to the public during his lifetime, Eugène Atget is today an icon -- one of the most celebrated and influential photographers of the 20th century. Born near Bordeaux, Atget first directed his efforts to painting and the stage before turning to photography shortly before 1890. He is best known for his documentary scenes of Paris and Versailles, but he photographed a number of other sites as well. Atget viewed his work as a historical and aesthetic record, regarding it as documentation for use by artists. Indeed, several artists are known to have painted from his images. Using relatively unsophisticated, even outdated equipment, Atget achieved a view of French architecture and culture that is both personal and factual. Along with the rediscovery of the images of Mathew Brady in the early 20th century, the recognition of Atget's artistic accomplishments shortly before his death by Berenice Abbott, Man Ray, and others helped turn photographers away from the mannered style of pictorialism toward the visual and technical clarity of modernism. Marked by a selective and highly individual method, his is among the most widely shown, published, and recognized work in photography today. T.W.F. --- measurements: Image: 21.8 x 17.6 cm (8 9/16 x 6 15/16 in.); Paper: 21.8 x 18 cm (8 9/16 x 7 1/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in pencil on verso: "Bouillon Blanc/En Fleur 133" translation: remark: inscription: Black stamp on verso of print: E. Atget/Rue Campagne-Premié re, 17 bis translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Accommodations of Desire: Surrealist Works on Paper Collected by Julien Levy opening date: 2004-09-14T04:00:00 Accommodations of Desire: Surrealist Works on Paper Collected by Julien Levy. Palmer Museum of Art (September 14-December 5, 2004); McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, MA (January 16-March 27, 2005); Crocker Art Museum, Sacaramento, CA (July 9-September 11, 2005); Portland Museum of Art (January 1-March 19, 2006). title: Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography opening date: 2014-10-19T00:00:00 Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 19, 2014-January 11, 2015). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Millon & Associés, Paris, Nov. 16, 1999) date: 1999-11-16 footnotes: citations: David Raymond [b.1979], New York, NY date: 2007 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E. Hinson, Ian Walker, and Lisa Kurzner. Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography : the David Raymond Collection in the Cleveland Museum of Art. 2014. page number: cat. no. 28, p. 57 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2007.26/2007.26_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2007.26/2007.26_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2007.26/2007.26_full.tif