id:			344445
accession number:	2019.111
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.111
updated:		2024-03-26 02:02:06.776000

Vision of Dead Desire, 1954, printed 1957. Clarence John Laughlin (American, 1905–1985). Gelatin silver print, waxed or varnished; image and paper: 34 x 23.5 cm (13 3/8 x 9 1/4 in.); mounted: 43 x 35.4 cm (16 15/16 x 13 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Arielle Kozloff Brodkey in memory of Dr. Jerald S. Brodkey 2019.111

title:				Vision of Dead Desire
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creation date:			1954, printed 1957
creation date earliest:		1954
creation date latest:		1954
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creditline:			Gift of Arielle Kozloff Brodkey in memory of Dr. Jerald S. Brodkey
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culture:	America, 20th century
technique:	gelatin silver print, waxed or varnished
department:	Photography
collection:	PH - American 1951-Present
type:		Photograph
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CREATORS

* Clarence John Laughlin (American, 1905–1985)  - artist

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measurements: image and paper: 34 x 23.5 cm (13 3/8 x 9 1/4 in.); Mounted: 43 x 35.4 cm (16 15/16 x 13 15/16 in.)
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	inscription:	Written in white pencil on recto of mount: “The Vision of Dead Desire-1954 Clarence John Laughlin (signed)”
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	inscription:	Stamped in red ink on verso of mount: “Print No. 33 (written in black ink)/C.J. Laughlin/627 Decatur St/New Orleans, LA/All reproduction and ad/vertising rights returned/by the photographer/© 1973”
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	inscription:	Written in black ink on verso of mount: “Print made Oct 1957”
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	inscription:	Commercially imprinted on verso of mount: “Crescent/Quality/Boards”
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	inscription:	Written in pencil on verso: “#9384/of 497/10/30/57”
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	inscription:	Written in pencil on verso of mount: “The Phantom Vines of Dead Desire/The Vision of Dead Desire (written in blue ink)”
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Afterimage Gallery, Dallas, TX
	date: Mid 1970s
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	Arielle Kozloff Brodkey and Dr. Jerald S. Brodkey, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1977-2014
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	Arielle Kozloff Brodkey, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2014-2019
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: June 3, 2019
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