Artist
Minor White (American, 1908–1976)American, 1908–1976
CultureAmerican
Titles
- Point Lobos State Park, California
DateMarch 14, 1950
Place depictedCalifornia, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 8 13/16 × 6 7/8 in. (22.4 × 17.5 cm)
Sheet: 9 15/16 × 7 15/16 in. (25.2 × 20.2 cm)
Sheet: 9 15/16 × 7 15/16 in. (25.2 × 20.2 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2002.2660
Not on view
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Department
PhotographySpecial Collections
Object Type
In his book Mirrors Messages Manifestations, Minor White described the two afternoons he spent at Lobos State Park, California, photo- graphing “forms I had liked for about three years but would not photograph because of their obvious sexual implications. Being the victim of an emotional storm those afternoons, sex symbols were just what I needed. I had no need to study these familiar forms to photo- graph them; that had been done, so I worked very fast.” White’s photographs often present abstracted elements of the natural world as symbolic evocations of emotional states.
Provenance[Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla, California]; purchased by Manfred Heiting, August 19, 1993; purchased by MFAH, 2002.
Exhibition History"Minor White: Poetic Form," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 13 July – 29 September 2013.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in pencil, verso, bottom edge: Fourth Sequence
There is no evident signature.
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Minor White
1951, printed 1975
Gelatin silver print
75.366.4