Artist
Bill Brandt (British, born Germany, 1904–1983)British, born Germany, 1904–1983
CultureBritish
Titles
- Yorkshire Moors
Date1945
PlaceEngland
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 8 15/16 × 7 9/16 in. (22.7 × 19.2 cm)
Sheet: 9 3/4 × 7 9/16 in. (24.8 × 19.2 cm)
Sheet: 9 3/4 × 7 9/16 in. (24.8 × 19.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Charles S. Zucker
Object number91.1593
Non exposé
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Department
PhotographyObject Type
a country was improved by its celebrated literature. A project to photograph
the poetic relationship between writers and their environment eventually led to
the book Literary Britain (1951),
which included 100 landscapes with excerpts from 51 renowned writers. Yorkshire Moors was printed next to a
quote by Charlotte Brontë writing about Emily Brontë: “My sister loved the
moors. . . She found in the bleak solitude many and dear delights; and not the
least and best-loved was—liberty.”
ProvenanceCharles S. Zucker, Short Hills, New Jersey; given to MFAH, 1991.
Exhibition History"Photographs by Bill Brandt: A Sense of Wonder," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Cameron Gallery, February 2-April 27, 2008.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso center below stamp in ink: Yorkshire Moors. / X, bottom center in pencil: ZUCKER[circled]
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verso center a stamp: BILL BRANDT
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Bill Brandt
November 1940
Gelatin silver print
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