Corn Leaf Rhythm

Barbara Morgan · 1945

This one's called Corn Leaf Rhythm — a photograph by Barbara Morgan, nineteen forty-five. A gelatin silver print — the standard black-and-white photograph of the twentieth century, paper coated in gelatin holding light-sensitive silver, developed by hand in a tray.

Medium Gelatin silver print, printed 1971 · Dimensions 19 1/2 × 13 1/2" (49.5 × 34.3 cm) · Credit Gift of the artist

Hanging beside it in Gallery 516: White Landscape, Mussel's Face from Arp: Hairy Hearts 1923-26, Kings before the Deluge 1952-53 (Arp: Behaarte Herzen 1923-26, Könige vor der Sintflut 1952-53)

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Révélateur Tachiste, Rock, Bakers Beach, San Francisco, California, Untitled (Study for The Inner World), Synchromy in Blue, Laocoön, Barber Shop Chord

More by Barbara Morgan here: Martha Graham, American Document ("Puritan Love Duet" with Eric Hawkins), Martha Graham, El Penitente (Erick Hawkins Solo, "El Flagellante"), Willard's Foot