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Vaulted Ceiling, Mont-Saint-Michel, France

1982

William Clift

(American, b. 1944)

Image: 12.1 x 9.5 cm (4 3/4 x 3 3/4 in.); Paper: 14.8 x 11.4 cm (5 13/16 x 4 1/2 in.); Matted: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.)

Anonymous Gift 1990.113

Location: not on view

Description

During visits to France in 1977 and later in 1981–82, Clift, an architectural photographer, turned his consuming interest to the majestic abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel. The ensuing images are rich with visual information but never chaotic, and are distinguished by their choice of subject matter, careful composition, and attention to the greatest possible variety of forms, textures, and light and dark shadow patterns. In this warm, subtly toned contact print, Clift turned his large-format camera upward to examine in detail the flowing, spider web-like lines of the vaulted ceiling.

"1990 Photography Acquisitions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 78, no. 2 (1991): 46-59. Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 56-57 www.jstor.org
Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. Reproduced: P. 128
Sims, Lowery Stokes. The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content, and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2006. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 46, no. 118
The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (June 9-August 20, 2006).
MOCA Cleveland (6/9/2006 - 8/20/2006): "The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art", no. 118, p. 123, repr. p. 46.
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