The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 26, 2024

That Inward Eye

That Inward Eye

1949
(German, 1905–1998)
Germany, 20th century
gelatin silver print, montage
Image: 22.7 x 17.5 cm (8 15/16 x 6 7/8 in.); Mounted: 35.7 x 27.2 cm (14 1/16 x 10 11/16 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 2007.140
© Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona
Location: not on view

Description

Trained as a painter, Gutmann took up photography shortly before immigrating to the United States with the idea of supporting himself there as a photojournalist. When he settled in San Francisco, he began teaching instead and in 1946, at San Francisco State University, founded one of the first American study programs in creative photography. The year he made this photograph, he married Gerrie von Pribosic, a talented painter associated with West Coast Surrealists. It is her eye among the clouds.
  • The artist's estate, San Francisco, CA
    (Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA)
    2007
    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. cat. no. 36, p. 69
  • Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 19, 2014-January 11, 2015).
  • {{cite web|title=That Inward Eye|url=false|author=John Gutmann|year=1949|access-date=26 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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