The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 28, 2024

Vines

Vines

1965
(American, 1916-)
Image: 42.9 x 51.4 cm (16 7/8 x 20 1/4 in.); Matted: 61 x 71.1 cm (24 x 28 in.)
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

Harold M. Null was born in Pennsylvania, but he spent most of his adult life in Italy.

Description

Photographs express a photographer’s vision, materialized through choices of subject matter, camera angle, cropping, editing, and other factors. Here the artist chose to represent a site from a specific viewpoint in black and white, resulting in an image that creates the illusion of two-dimensional pattern. Vines depicts bare grapevines creeping over rows of trellises in a winter landscape. From a distance, the image appears to have dark geometric and organic lines over a white background. The closer we look, the clearer the subject becomes.
  • Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. Reproduced: P. 257
  • Cleveland, The Kenneth C. Beck Center for the Cultural Arts, 1979: "Selections of Photography from the Cleveland Museum of Art."
    Source Material for Studio Projects. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 20-August 27, 1972).
    Photograph Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 13-September 19, 1971).
    Year in Review: 1965. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 27-November 14, 1965).
    CMA, October 27 - November 14, 1965: "Year in Review," CMA Bulletin 52 (November 1965), p. 157, no. 179.
    New York World's Fair, 1965: "Photography in the Fine Arts."
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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1965.334