Accession Number
1987/1.229

Title
View of Gate, Iron and Brick

Artist(s)
Doris Ulmann

Artist Nationality
American (North American)

Object Creation Date
circa 1913 - 1925

Medium & Support
gum platinum print on paper

Dimensions
10 15/16 in x 8 9/16 in (27.78 cm x 21.75 cm);14 1/16 in x 18 in (35.72 cm x 45.72 cm);11 in x 9 in (27.94 cm x 22.86 cm)

Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas M. Kenyon

Subject matter
Doris Ulmann became interested in photography after studying at the Ethical Culture School (1900-1903), where Lewis Hine taught. She studied at Columbia and later at the Clarence H. White School of Photography from 1913-1917. She focused on pictorialist subject matter and studio portraiture until 1927, when she began to document folklore and rural traditions in Appalachia and rural communities throughout North and Southeast. She collaborated with John Jacob Niles on her travels, and later, Julia Peterkin for her work about the vanishing black culture, "Gullah," in South Carolina in Roll, Jordan, Roll.

Physical Description
A photograph of an iron gate with brick columns. A large tree hangs over the gate, its branches mimicking the formal qualities of the gate below.

Primary Object Classification
Photograph

Collection Area
Photography

Rights
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Keywords
brick (clay product)
gate components
modern and contemporary art
trees