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PAUL OUTERBRIDGE, JR. (American, 1896-1958) CHEESE AND CRACKERS signed and dated

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PAUL OUTERBRIDGE, JR. (American, 1896-1958) CHEESE AND CRACKERS signed and dated
PAUL OUTERBRIDGE, JR. (American, 1896-1958) CHEESE AND CRACKERS signed and dated "Paul Outerbridge, Jr., 1922" in pencil below image on mount accompanied with a fragment of the previous mat with Laguna Beach Art Association and Smithsonian Institution exhibition labels adhered to its verso vintage platinum print mounted on board 4 9/16 x 3 9/16 in. (11.6 x 9 cm) mount: 13 1/8 x 10 1/16 in. (33.3 x 25.6 cm) 1922 PROVENANCE The Estate of Paul Outerbridge, Jr. Laguna Art Museum, LAGUNA BEACH Sotheby's NEW YORK, April 23, 1996, Sale Number 8390, Lot 282 (sold to benefit the museum's acquisitions fund) Private Collection, SWITZERLAND EXHIBITED WASHINGTON D.C., The Smithsonian Institution, PAUL OUTERBRIDGE, JR., March-April 1959 LAGUNA BEACH, Laguna Beach Museum of Art (and 12 other venues), PAUL OUTERBRIDGE: A SINGULAR AESTHETIC, PHOTOGRAPHS AND DRAWINGS, 1921-1941, November 21, 1981- January 10, 1982 LITERATURE Graham Howe and G. Ray Hawkins, eds., PAUL OUTERBRIDGE, JR: PHOTOGRAPHS. New York, 1980, p. 79 (illustrated) PAUL OUTERBRIDGE 1896-1958, Cologne, 1999, p. 51 (illustrated) Kaspar Fleischmann, TWENTY YEARS: 1979-1999, Zürich, 1999, pl. 9 (illustrated) Having studied life drawing at the Art Students' League a few years earlier, Outerbridge decided to enroll at the renowned Clarence H. White School of Photography in New York in 1921. He so impressed his instructors by his rapid progress and innate sense of design that he was asked to teach the class in composition and aesthetics before he had even finished his own course work. Over the next year, Outerbridge worked with great intensity in an improvised studio in his parents' home. Using simple household objects, he created exacting compositions that he photographed with a 4 x 5 inch view camera. He often made drawings of a still-life arrangement before making the photograph. It was with such meticulous attention to detail that he composed this image of cheese, crackers, a cutting board, and a knife, conscious of where the shadows would fall. Approximately six prints of this image are known to exist, including those in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the High Museum of Art, Atlanta.
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