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Marsh Weeds
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About this work
Emerson’s early photographs emphasized naturalism, but his late works such as this one demonstrate influences from Japanese art, French Impressionism, and the painting and graphic art of Whistler, who was a personal acquaintance. This looser, more expressionistic, and emotional late style helped lay the groundwork for Pictorialist photography (for example, see 1980.141), the movement that succeeded in getting photography more widely accepted as a fine art.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineMarsh Leaves: Marsh Weeds, before 1891, published 1895. Peter Henry Emerson (British, 1856–1936). Photogravure; image: 10.2 x 14.3 cm (4 x 5 5/8 in.); paper: 17.5 x 26.7 cm (6 7/8 x 10 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. Roger J. Lerch in Memory of Carl J. Lerch and Winifred J. Lerch Endowment, 2025.16
