The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 20, 2025
A Canal in Venice, Italy
c. 1900–1920
(American, 1877–1952)
Image: 19.5 x 24 cm (7 11/16 x 9 7/16 in.); Mounted: 29.1 x 32.6 cm (11 7/16 x 12 13/16 in.); Matted: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.)
Gift of Mrs. Edd A. Ruggles 1972.1088
Location: Not on view
Did You Know?
Edward Crosby Doughty was trained as an architect but became a photographer specializing in architectural, landscape, and garden images.Description
Doughty printed this image on translucent tissue. The light bouncing through the tissue and off the paper mount enhances the luminosity of water and sky. In keeping with the approach of Stieglitz and other Pictorialists, Doughty captures the beauty of the mundane. Rather than photographing popular tourist sites such as the Grand Canal, he turns his camera toward a more banal part of the city, with laundry drying in the breeze above docked boats.- Shadows and Dreams: Pictorialist Photography in America. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (September 5, 2015-January 17, 2016).
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