The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 28, 2024

Bubble Emerging from Clay Pipe and Frosted Leaf

Bubble Emerging from Clay Pipe and Frosted Leaf

1937
(American, 1890–1976)
Image: 40 x 29.7 cm (15 3/4 x 11 11/16 in.); Matted: 55.9 x 45.7 cm (22 x 18 in.)
© 2013 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Location: not on view

Description

One of the 20th century's most inventive and witty photographers, Man Ray was one of several artists who rediscovered the photogram technique. This cameraless approach had first been used during the early history of photography by William Henry Fox Talbot and Anna Atkins. Bubble Emerging from Clay Pipe and Frosted Leaf reflects Man Ray's preoccupation with ordinary articles brought together by chance, ambiguity, and unconscious association. For him, the down-turned pipe bowl symbolized lost dreams and the separated leaves referred to the Surrealists leaving Paris in the face of the oncoming second World War.
  • Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. Reproduced: P. 229
  • The Colour of My Dreams: The Surrealist Revolution in Art. Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (organizer) (May 28-October 2, 2011).
    Vancouver Art Gallery (5/28/2011 - 10/2/2011): "The Colour of My Dreams: The Surrealist Revolution in Art"
    Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 24-September 16, 2007).
    The Cleveland Museum of Art (6/24/07 - 9/16/07); "Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art", no exhibition catalogue.
    CMA, November 20,1996 - February 2, 1997: "Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art."
    Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 24, 1996-February 2, 1997).
    Philadelphia, PA, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, October 14, 1989 - January 7, 1990: "Perpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray."
    Houston, TX, The Menil Collection, June 30 - September 17, 1989: "Perpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray."
    Los Angeles, CA, Museum of Contemporary Art, March 19 - May 28, 1989: "Perpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray."
    Washington, D.C. National Museum of American Art, December 2, 1988 - February 20, 1989: "Perpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray."
    Images of the Mind. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 7-August 30, 1987).
    CMA, July 7 - August 23, 1987: "Images of the Mind," catalogue illustrated p. 28.
    Year in Review for 1984. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 3-May 5, 1985).
    CMA, April 3 - May 5, 1985: "Year in Review 1984," CMA Bulletin, 72 (April 1985), p. 202, no. 63, repr. p. 195.
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