Bill Brandt
Yorkshire Moors

ExpandFavorite

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)

Credit LineGift of Charles S. Zucker

Object number91.1593

Not on view

Explore Further

Department

Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionBill Brandt was an avid reader and believed that
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]

verso center a stamp: BILL BRANDT

Cataloguing data may change with further research.

If you have questions about this work of art or the MFAH Online Collection please contact us.