The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 20, 2025

Portrait of Clarence White

1912

Alvin Langdon Coburn

(British, 1882–1966)
England
photogravure
Image: 20.3 x 15.6 cm (8 x 6 1/8 in.)
Gift of Carl and Joan Schneider 2021.223
Location: Not on view

Did You Know?

Early twentieth-century fine art photographers turned to the photomechanical process of photogravure to widely disseminate high quality prints of their images.

Description

The Pictorialists were the first international movement to argue that photography could be a fine art as imaginative and unique as painting or printmaking. Around 1900, a star of the movement, Alvin Langdon Coburn, produced an artistic portrait one of its leaders, Ohio-born Clarence H. White. In 1912, photogravure was used to produce extremely high quality prints of the image that were ink on paper which were bound into the journal for the movement, Camera Work.
  • ?-2007
    (West End Book Shop, Ann Arbor, MI) sold to Carl and Joan Schneider
    2007-2021
    Carl and Joan Schneider, Whitmore Lake, MI, given to The Cleveland Museum of Art
    December 6, 2021
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2021.223