The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 21, 2025

June Leaf, Sculptress, Mabou Mines, Nova Scotia, July 18, 1975

1975

Richard Avedon

(American, 1923–2004)
America
gelatin silver print
Image: 24.4 x 19.4 cm (9 5/8 x 7 5/8 in.); Paper: 25.2 x 20.1 cm (9 15/16 x 7 15/16 in.)
Gift of Diann G. Mann and Thomas A. Mann 2019.32
© The Richard Avedon Foundation
Location: Not on view

Did You Know?

June Leaf felt that Avedon's portrait revealed more about the photographer than about her.

Description

Richard Avedon’s distinctive portrait style involved photographing sitters against a plain light background. They face front, engaging directly with the photographer. Leaf, an artist married to the photographer Robert Frank, is aware of self-presentation. She has chosen to be photographed without makeup or pretension. Her arms shield her body, but she gazes directly and openly at us. The resulting image conveys the artist’s natural beauty and strong character.
  • February 16, 2006
    Sotheby's, New York, NY
    2006-2019
    Thomas A. and Diann G. Mann, Palm Beach Gardens, FL
    March 4, 2019
    the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Harold Brodkey, Avedon Photographs: 1947-1977, Farrar Strauss & Giroux, New York, 1987 pl. 162
    Avedon, Richard, and Anne Hollander. Woman in the Mirror. New York: H.N. Abrams, 2005. p. 167
    Avedon, Richard, Michael Juul Holm, and Helle Crenzien. Richard Avedon Photographs, 1946-2004. Humlebæk, Denmark: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2007. pl. 125
    Christie, Manson & Woods International Inc. An American Journey: The Diann G. and Thomas A. Mann Collection of Photographic Masterworks. 2018.
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2019.32