The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 18, 2024

Irvine

Irvine

1970
(American, 1945–2014)
America, 20th century
Vintage gelatin silver print
Image: 14.6 x 21.5 cm (5 3/4 x 8 7/16 in.); Paper: 19.9 x 24.9 cm (7 13/16 x 9 13/16 in.); Matted: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.)
Ruthe and Heinz Eppler Fund 1992.122
Location: not on view

Description

Lewis Baltz used his camera to record humanity's uneasy relationship with the natural environment. This image is from a body of work created in the early 1970s that explored the impact of industrial buildings on the barren California landscape. Direct and bland, the photograph of an unfinished factory wall refers symbolically to the creation of new corporate identities for high-tech entrepreneurs. Using a tightly cropped, frontal, close-up view, Baltz suggested the spare, geometric, and repeated forms associated with Minimal art in the 1960s.
  • Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. Reproduced: P. 92
  • CMA, November 20,1996 - February 2, 1997: "Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art."
    Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 24, 1996-February 2, 1997).
    Selected Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 9-April 11, 1993).
    CMA, January 28 - March 15, 1992: "Selected Acquisitions," CMA Bulletin, 80 (February 1993), p. 67 no. 74.
    Athens, Ohio: Trisolini Gallery (May 10 - June 4, 1977); Dayton, Ohio: Dayton Art Institute (October 21 - November 20, 1977): "Three Photographic Visions," pp. 5-19.
  • {{cite web|title=Irvine|url=false|author=Lewis Baltz|year=1970|access-date=18 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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