id:			344477
accession number:	2019.128
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.128
updated:		2024-03-29 11:23:35.370000

Untitled (Floating Tree and Peapod), 1969. Jerry N. Uelsmann (American, 1934–2022). Gelatin silver print; image and paper: 25.3 x 31.8 cm (9 15/16 x 12 1/2 in.); mounted: 40.5 x 50.6 cm (15 15/16 x 19 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Arielle Kozloff Brodkey in memory of Dr. Jerald S. Brodkey 2019.128

title:				Untitled (Floating Tree and Peapod)
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creation date:			1969
creation date earliest:		1969
creation date latest:		1969
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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
department:	Photography
collection:	PH - American 1951-Present
type:		Photograph
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CREATORS

* Jerry N. Uelsmann (American, 1934–2022)  - artist
Jerry N. Uelsmann American, 1934- Symbolism, humor, and discovery characterize the work of Jerry Norman Uelsmann. A student of Minor White at the Rochester Institute of Technology (B.F.A., 1957) and Henry Holmes Smith at Indiana University Graduate School (1958-60), he shared Smith's penchant for exploring and expanding the technical possibilities of the medium. Having mastered straight black-and-white printing, Uelsmann succeeded in achieving the same technical perfection in his double exposures and combination prints, creating within a single frame seamless transitions between straight and manipulated imagery. His fabricated scenes, while perhaps too premeditated to be accurately termed "surreal," frequently refer to archetypal and apocalyptic symbols. One of Uelsmann's best known projects, Massacre of the Innocents (1971), reflects his penchant for mythic iconography. Uelsmann (born in Detroit) is also a respected photographic educator, earning a 1975 award from the University of Florida (where he has taught since 1962) as Teacher/Scholar of the Year. He helped to found Friends of Photography, is a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, and was visiting professor at the Nihon University of Art, Tokyo (1979). His work has been published extensively and exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1967), and in retrospectives organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art (1970), the San Francisco Museum of Art (1977), George Eastman House, Rochester (1982), and the Samuel P. Horn Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida (1994). He has been awarded fellowships from the John Simon Memorial Guggenheim Foundation (1967) and the National Endowment for the Arts (1972) as well as a City of Arles Medal, France (1973). Uelsmann lives in Gainesville. A.W.
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measurements: image and paper: 25.3 x 31.8 cm (9 15/16 x 12 1/2 in.); Mounted: 40.5 x 50.6 cm (15 15/16 x 19 15/16 in.)
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	inscription:	Written in pencil in lower right on recto of mount: “J.N.U. 1969”
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	inscription:	Written in black ink on verso of mount: “1969/Jerry N. Uelsmann (signed)”
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	inscription:	Imprinted in black type on white adhesive address label on verso: “Mr. J.N. Uelsmann/5701 SW 17th Drive/Gainseville, Florida 32608 (8 is written in black ink)”
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Halsted Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI
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	Arielle Kozloff Brodkey and Dr. Jerald S. Brodkey, Cleveland, OH
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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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