The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 24, 2025

Swan Hunter, Freezeout Lake, Montana

1995

Barbara Bosworth

(American, b. 1953)
America
gelatin silver print
Image: 24.7 x 20 cm (9 3/4 x 7 7/8 in.); Paper: 26.2 x 20.9 cm (10 5/16 x 8 1/4 in.); Matted: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.)
Judith K. and S. Sterling McMillan III Photography Purchase Fund 1998.18
Location: Not on view

Description

During the 1990s, Cleveland-born Barbara Bosworth worked on a series about modern-day hunters, dense images with personal and archetypical metaphors that address the continual cycles of life, death, and renewal. In this stark portrait of a hunter and his prey, captured in the endless Montana winter terrain, she investigated the primal interaction between humankind, animal, and the landscape.
  • Chaffee, Cathleen, "The Perfect Shot", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 44 no. 07, September 2004 Mentioned & reproduced: p. 8-9 archive.org
  • Portraiture: American Photography 1960 to the Present. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 1-September 13, 2009).
    The Cleveland Museum of Art (06/01/2009 - 09/13/2009); "Portraiture: American Photography 1960 to the Present"
    Trophies of the Hunt: Capturing Nature as Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 24-November 3, 2004).
    Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; 7/24/04 - 11/3/04. "Trophies of the Hunt: Capturing Nature as Art". No exhibition catalogue.
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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1998.18