Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Bruce Davidson, born 1933, American
Title:
The North
Date:
1960
Materials & Techniques:
Gelatin silver print on moderately thick, semigloss photographic paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 11 × 14 inches (27.9 × 35.6 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed on verso in graphite, upper center: "Bruce Davidson"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Ralph and Nancy Segall
Copyright Status:
© The Artist
Accession Number:
B2014.1.1
Classification:
Photographs
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
landscape | reflection | ferns | clouds | storm | river | lake
Associated Places:
England | United Kingdom
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13)
Gallery Label:
Bruce Davidson made his name in the late 1950s with photographs of Brooklyn’s notorious street gangs. Seeking a retreat and change of pace, he crossed the Atlantic on an assignment for the magazine the Queen. He spent two months touring Britain in a Hillman Minx convertible and photographing the places and people of Britain, publishing his book England/Scotland in 1960. Davidson’s urban photographs captured a nation in decline and still emerging from postwar privation. But he also photographed the landscapes, including this image of a lake with the cloudy sky reflected in the water, an homage perhaps to the great British landscape photographers of the nineteenth century. Gallery label for A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:59284