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Rowing Home the Schoof-Stuff

Rowing Home the Schoof-Stuff

1886
(British, 1856–1936)
(with T.F. Goodall)
Image: 13.6 x 27.6 cm (5 3/8 x 10 7/8 in.); Matted: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.)
Location: not on view

Description

Reacting against the theatrical, sentimental photogaphs made by his contemporaries, Peter Henry Emerson pursued a direct and more naturalistic form of photography. He discovered his subjects in familiar scenes from everyday life and captured them on film. This image was included among the 40 prints illustrating Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads, one of many books Emerson published on the marsh dwellers of East Anglia. In this photograph the word "schoof" refers to the sheaf of marsh plants that have been harvested to be dried and stored at home.
  • Thackery Robinson, San Francisco, CA
  • Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. Reproduced: P. 146
  • 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).
    also to: Norfolk, VA, The Chrysler Museum, June 21-September 11, 1994.
    Princeton, NJ, The Princeton University Art Museum, Pictorial Effect/Naturalistic Vision, March 21-June 7, 1994, cat. #61, p. 84.
    The Year in Review for 1983. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 22-April 8, 1984).
    CMA 1984: "Year in Review 1983," Bulletin LXXI (Feb. 1984), p. 71, no. 76.
  • {{cite web|title=Rowing Home the Schoof-Stuff|url=false|author=Peter Henry Emerson, Sampson Low, Marston, Seale and Riverton|year=1886|access-date=28 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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