id: 344413 accession number: 2019.88 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.88 updated: 2024-03-26 02:02:06.646000 Jenner, California, 1974. Ruth Bernhard (American, 1905–2006). Gelatin silver print; image and paper: 34.2 x 26.6 cm (13 7/16 x 10 1/2 in.); mounted: 50.7 x 40.6 cm (19 15/16 x 16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Arielle Kozloff Brodkey in memory of Dr. Jerald S. Brodkey 2019.88 title: Jenner, California title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1974 creation date earliest: 1974 creation date latest: 1974 current location: creditline: Gift of Arielle Kozloff Brodkey in memory of Dr. Jerald S. Brodkey copyright: --- culture: America, 20th century technique: gelatin silver print department: Photography collection: PH - American 1951-Present type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Ruth Bernhard (American, 1905–2006) - artist Ruth Bernhard American, b. Germany, 1905- Ruth Bernhard studied at the Akademie der Kunst (1925-27) in her native Berlin. In 1927 she moved to New York City, learning the basics of photography during a brief stint in Ralph Steiner's photography department at Delineator magazine. From 1930-36 she worked in the city as a freelance fashion and advertising photographer. During a 1935 trip to California, Bernhard met Edward Weston, whose work she greatly admired. The following year she moved to Santa Monica to study with Weston; by this time, however, he had moved north to settle in Carmel. Bernhard decided to stay in southern California, where she lived and worked as a freelance photographer for the next 17 years. In 1953 she moved to San Francisco, her current home. During the 1960s-70s Bernhard instructed at Utah State University and the University of California Extension, Berkeley and San Francisco. She works primarily in black and white with a viewfinder camera, specializing in nudes, natural forms, and still lifes. M.M. --- measurements: image and paper: 34.2 x 26.6 cm (13 7/16 x 10 1/2 in.); Mounted: 50.7 x 40.6 cm (19 15/16 x 16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in pencil on recto of mount, in lower right: “Ruth Bernhard” translation: remark: inscription: Written in pencil on verso of mount: “Jenner, Ca c. 1974/Ruth Barnhard/Printed by: Ruth Bernhard” translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco, CA date: footnotes: citations: Arielle Broadkey, Cleveland, OH date: Probably 2000s footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: June 3, 2019 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES