Cleft of the Rock
Maker
Brigman, Anne Wardrope
American, 1869-1950
Date1916
MediumPhotogravure on Japanese tissue tipped on paper
Dimensions5 in x 9 ½ in
Credit LineGift of Susan Todd-Raque and David Raque
Object number2021:178
About the ArtistAnne W. Brigman, a late nineteenth-century pictorialist photographer, was born in Hawaii but spent most of her life in California. She used natural images combined with the female figure to create mysteriously poetic images. Brigman used cedar trees almost exclusively in her female nude images. She was one of the first women to photograph nudes in a wilderness landscape. Her images deliberately resemble charcoal drawings, as she sought to capture the spirit of her subject rather than a faithful reproduction.
Stearns, Patrick
1995
