The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 29, 2024

The Arbor (Julia Hall McCune)

The Arbor (Julia Hall McCune)

1906
(American, 1871–1925)
Image: 23.8 x 19.3 cm (9 3/8 x 7 5/8 in.); Paper: 25.7 x 19.3 cm (10 1/8 x 7 5/8 in.); Matted: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.)
Location: not on view

Description

Clarence Hudson White was a pioneer of the American pictorialist vision. For more than 25 years, he helped shape the style and, by extenstion, the direction of 20th-century photography through his work as a practitioner, leader, teacher, and mentor. He was primarily a family photographer, who enjoyed posing his family and friends in intimate interiors against a window or outdoors at dawn or dusk. He enhanced his negative's soft quality by printing on platinum paper, a medium that renders the middle tones of a print with great sensitivity. In this image, White posed one of his favorite models, Julia Hall McCune, a family friend and student, in an arbor. McCune appears lost in thought. Her face is partially bathed in a soft light that heightens the quiet, meditative mood of the scene.
  • Julia McCune Flory
  • Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. Mentioned and Reproduced: P. 30-31, 376
  • No Mere Button-Pressers: Clarence H. White, Ema Spencer, and the Newark Camera Club. Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH (organizer) (August 1-December 13, 2020).
    CMA, November 20,1996 - February 2, 1997: "Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art," see Catalogue of Photography, pp. 30-31.
    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).
    Year in Review: 1980. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 24-July 19, 1981).
  • {{cite web|title=The Arbor (Julia Hall McCune)|url=false|author=Clarence H. White|year=1906|access-date=29 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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