The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 20, 2024

New York 3

New York 3

1951
(American, 1903–1991)
America, 20th century
gelatin silver print
Image: 26.2 x 33.6 cm (10 5/16 x 13 1/4 in.); Paper: 27.6 x 35.3 cm (10 7/8 x 13 7/8 in.); Matted: 45.7 x 55.9 cm (18 x 22 in.)
Purchased with a grant from the NEA and matched by contributions from Museum members in 1989 1989.468
© Aaron Siskind Foundation
Location: not on view

Description

One of the most inventive photographers and influential teachers of the 20th century, Siskind based his unique style on the ability to craft an abstract image—flat and two-dimensional—from concrete reality, transforming his found imagery into suggestive signs and symbols. He found his evocative compositions in such unlikely forms as peeling paint, piles of rocks, bits of seaweed, fragments of graffiti, doodles of tar, and, as in this early picture taken in New York, torn fragments of posters. He organized his imagery by stressing formal concerns: form, texture, scale, and the elimination of illusion. His interests were strongly related to the work of the abstract expressionist painters, many of whom were his friends.
  • "1989 Annual Report." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 77, no. 6 (1990): 183-259. Reproduced: p. 186; Mentioned: p. 182 www.jstor.org
    Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. Reproduced: P. 323
  • The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (June 9-August 20, 2006).
    MOCA Cleveland (6/9/2006 - 8/20/2006): "The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art", no. 92, p. 121.
    Aaron Siskind Photographs. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (July 13-November 14, 1999).
    Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; July 13 - November 14, 1999. "Aaron Siskind Photographs."
    CMA, Nov. 18, 1992 - Jan. 3, 1993: "Contemporary American Photographers," CMA Bulletin, 79 (Nov. 1992), p. 351, no. 62.
    CMA, Feb. 6 - April 15, 1990: "Year in Review 1989," CMA Bulletin, 77 (Feb. 1990), p. 72, no. 129 (not exhibited).
  • {{cite web|title=New York 3|url=false|author=Aaron Siskind|year=1951|access-date=20 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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