Wooden Dowels
- Date
- 1939, printed 1977
- Material
- Gelatin silver print
- Classification
- Photographs
- Collection
- Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- image: 12 5/16 x 18 5/8 in. (31.3 x 47.3 cm)
sheet: 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm) - Credit Line
- Gift of Morton D. May
- Rights
- © Estate of Nathan Lerner / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
- Object Number
- 273:1980
NOTES
Nathan Lerner devised a chamber, or light box, in which he could manipulate and control light for his photographic studies. For this image, he aligned a series of wooden dowels at slight angles to each other and cast a band of light across their tops. Emerging from the darkness, they are animated by the light that seems to make them dance across the print. As Lerner observed, "The variation and contrasts of the light play seems as endless as does our pleasure."
Provenance
- 1980
Morton D. May, St. Louis, MO
1980 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, gift of Morton D. May
Notes:
Letter acknowledging gift to Museum from Judith Weiss to Morton May, September 3, 1980 [SLAM Document File]. Minutes of a Meeting of the Acquisitions and Loans Committee of the Board of Trustees, September 19, 1980.
Morton D. May, St. Louis, MO
1980 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, gift of Morton D. May
Notes:
Letter acknowledging gift to Museum from Judith Weiss to Morton May, September 3, 1980 [SLAM Document File]. Minutes of a Meeting of the Acquisitions and Loans Committee of the Board of Trustees, September 19, 1980.
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