The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 25, 2024

New York Montage

New York Montage

1928
(American, 1903–1991)
America, 20th century
gelatin silver print, montage
Image: 11.5 x 8.2 cm (4 1/2 x 3 1/4 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 2007.117
Location: not on view

Description

Born and raised in Texas, Rotan got a job working for a New York museum photographing artworks. His personal work emphasized the geometry, radical perspectives, and dramatic energy of the new New York. A 1932 essay on his work demonstrated American jingoism by praising Rotan’s photographs as "not the disordered jargon of photo-montage imported from decadent capitals abroad, but keen and sane assemblages singing a fresher song."
  • The artist, New York, NY
    Keith De Lellis, New York, NY
    Chester Dentan, Seattle, WA
    Tuesday October 6, 1998
    (Christie's, New York, NY, Oct. 6, 1998, no. 277, sold to David Raymond)
    1998-2007
    David Raymond [b.1979], New York, NY
    2007-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E. Hinson, Ian Walker, and Lisa Kurzner. Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography : the David Raymond Collection in the Cleveland Museum of Art. 2014. Reproduced: p. 71, no. 38; reproduced and mentioned: p. 234.
  • A New York Minute: Street Photography, 1920-1950. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 11-November 7, 2021).
    Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 19, 2014-January 11, 2015).
  • {{cite web|title=New York Montage|url=false|author=Thurman Rotan|year=1928|access-date=25 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2007.117