id:			344414
accession number:	2019.89
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.89
updated:		2024-03-26 02:02:06.651000

Outside Firm Joint Caliper, 1933. Ruth Bernhard (American, 1905–2006). Gelatin silver print; image: 23.1 x 18.4 cm (9 1/8 x 7 1/4 in.); paper: 25.6 x 20.3 cm (10 1/16 x 8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Arielle Kozloff Brodkey in memory of Dr. Jerald S. Brodkey 2019.89

title:				Outside Firm Joint Caliper
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creation date:			1933
creation date earliest:		1933
creation date latest:		1933
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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 1900-1950
type:		Photograph
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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.
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measurements: Image: 23.1 x 18.4 cm (9 1/8 x 7 1/4 in.); Paper: 25.6 x 20.3 cm (10 1/16 x 8 in.)
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	inscription:	Written in pencil on recto: “CF Bull Text”
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	inscription:	Written in red pencil on verso: “32”
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	inscription:	Stamped in black ink on white paper label adhered to verso: “294/Outside firm joint caliper/For obtaining outside measurements/(used in connection with scale)/Brown & Sharpe of New York Inc./60 ₵ Hardware stores.”
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	inscription:	Written in pencil on white paper label adhered to verso: “Not without/Bull in [illegible handwriting]/article/[illegible handwriting]”
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	inscription:	Written in pencil on verso: “Ruth Bernhard/N.Y. 1933”
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	inscription:	Stamped in black ink on verso: “Exhibition of Machine Art/Mar. 7, 1934 to Apr. 16, 1934/Museum of Modern Art/11 West 53 St., New York”
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PROVENANCE

	Christie's, New York, NY
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	Arielle Broadkey, Cleveland, OH
	date: October 20, 2003
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: June 3, 2019
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