Untitled (Winter Landscape) (c. 1900): Art, History and Details

Untitled (Winter Landscape) (c. 1900) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is William B. Post (American, 1857–1925).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

In the decades around the turn of the 20th century, Post frequently exhibited his Pictorial photographs in the United States, Canada, and Europe. This well-regarded amateur photographer was especially known for his winter scenes, often taken in the vicinity of his home in Fryeburg, Maine. Cleverly positioned, the photographer used two mounds of earth in the foreground to frame a complex landscape of open fields populated by stands of trees and a weaving line of fences leading the eye to the distant mountain range. Post hoped his ability to compose and his mastery of powerful visual effects would earn him recognition as a master of landscape photography.

Object facts

• Title: Untitled (Winter Landscape)
• Date: c. 1900
• Creator attribution: William B. Post (American, 1857–1925)
• Culture: America
• Type: Photograph
• Technique: platinum print
• Dimensions: Image: 14.9 x 23 cm (5 7/8 x 9 1/16 in.); Matted: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.)
• Collection: PH - American 1900-1950
• Department: Photography
• Accession number: 1993.28

Collection credit

John L. Severance Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• “1993 Annual Report.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 81, no. 6 (July 1994): 143–218.
• Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.

View the collection record

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