The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 13, 2025

Eggs of a Stone-curlew or Plover

1900s

Richard Tepe

(Netherlandish, 1864–1952)
Netherlands
silver print on printing out paper
Image: 11.7 x 16.8 cm (4 5/8 x 6 5/8 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 2007.128
Location: Not on view

Description

Dedicated to wildlife and natural habitat preservation, Tepe helped bring nature photography into the fine art world. He exhibited his photographs and published articles and pictures in both natural history and art magazines.
  • Simon Lowinsky, New York, NY
    David Raymond [b.1979], New York, NY
    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. 161, no. 114;
  • Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 19, 2014-January 11, 2015).
  • {{cite web|title=Eggs of a Stone-curlew or Plover|url=false|author=Richard Tepe|year=1900s|access-date=13 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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