View of the Yamdok Tso (from the album Tibet and Llasa)

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View of the Yamdok Tso (from the album Tibet and Llasa)

Artist John Claude White (American, 1853-1918)

Date1908

DimensionsSheet: 13 1/2 x 18 3/8 in. (340 x 466mm)
Image: 7 1/4 x 12 1/4 in. (184 x 311mm)

MediumCarbon print on textured paper

ClassificationPhotographs

Credit LineGift of Margaret and Howard Bond

Object number

2002.25

Not on View

DescriptionOne carbon print by Claude White, removed from the album "Tibet & Llasa," published 1908. Written in pencil on the mat: Carbon print | J. (John) Claude White 1853-1918, "View of the Yamdok Tso" from album "Tibet & Llasa" 1908. B775. Oversheet from album is included, printed: View of the Yamdok Tso. One carbon print by Claude White, removed from the album "Tibet & Llasa," published 1908. Written in pencil on the mat: Carbon print | J. (John) Claude White 1853-1918, "View of the Yamdok Tso" from album "Tibet & Llasa" 1908. B775. Oversheet from album is included, printed: View of the Yamdok Tso.

Label TextJohn Marin's etching, showing nearly the full expanse of the Brooklyn Bridge as it links Brooklyn to Manhattan, expresses the power and grace contained in the bridge's steel and stone and cable. In the foreground the flat planes of buildings crowd and push at the stone pylon. The skyscrapers of Manhattan loom in the background, while the bridge itself leans against the tension of its own cables. The movement of the river is evident, but sky, buildings, and bridge too are infused with an animation that is characteristic of Marin's work. In 1913 Marin produced eleven etchings depicting the two New York landmarks that most exemplified America's aspirations in a new age: the Brooklyn Bridge and the recently completed Woolworth Building, then the world's tallest skyscraper. In these etchings he expressed graphically the essence of the modern city. He created prints that push and pull, that move and dance. Brooklyn Bridge and Lower New York is one of the artist's greatest accomplishments in which he merges European Cubism with a new American dynamism.Published Referencescf.: Clarke, John. Tibet: Caught in Time (Reading, England: Garnet Publishing, 1977). cf.: White, John Claude. Sikkim & Bhutan: Twenty-One Years on the North-East Frontier, 1887-1908 (reprint, Delhi: Vivek Publishing House, 1971).Exhibition HistoryTMA New Works on Paper Dec. 2005 - Mar. 5, 2006