The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 29, 2024

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

1974
(American, b. 1934)
Image: 19.1 x 28.6 cm (7 1/2 x 11 1/4 in.); Paper: 27.9 x 35.3 cm (11 x 13 7/8 in.); Matted: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.)
© 1978 Lee Friedlander
Location: not on view

Description

Although this photograph belongs to Friedlander’s American monuments series, the monuments themselves are nearly obscured by a web of flowering branches. Gettysburg, site of the bloodiest battle of the Civil War, is here tranquil and serene in Friedlander’s unconventional framing of his subject. Half-hidden behind their curtain of blossoms, these monuments no longer memorialize the violence of war but meld quietly into the peaceful landscape.
  • Hinson, Tom E. "Contemporary American Photographs: An Exhibition." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 79, no. 9 (1992): 306-51. p. 347, no. 18 25161375
    E. H. T. "The Year in Review: Selections 1989." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 77, no. 2 (1990): 38-78. p. 70, no. 84 25160106
    Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. Reproduced: P. 174
  • Contemporary Landscape Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 26-August 14, 2011).
    Human Intervention: Contemporary Landscape Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 26-October 10, 2001).
    Contemporary American Photographers. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 18, 1992-January 3, 1993).
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1989.424