The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 19, 2025

Silver Lining No. 1

1979

Anne Noggle

(American, 1922–2005)
America
gelatin silver print
Gift of Cal Kowal and Anita Douthat 2022.332
Location: Not on view

Did You Know?

Until Anne Noggle’s Silver Lining series of portraits of married couples, very few men appeared in her work.

Description

“Silver Lining is supposed to have as its basis that irony implicit in living together for so long—a double-edged idea that life together is and isn’t a bowl of cherries,” said Noggle, “and trying to indicate it by not giving the answer in the images.” This portrait shows photographer Betty Hahn, who taught with Noggle in the Photography Department at the University of New Mexico, and her husband in their bedroom.
  • ?-2022
    Cal Kowal [1944-], Alexandria, KY, given to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
    December 5, 2022-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2022.332