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Fortuneteller with Glass
1946 · gelatin silver print
Image: 5.6 x 5.6 cm (2 3/16 x 2 3/16 in.); Mounted: 12.7 x 12.2 cm (5 x 4 13/16 in.)
Cleveland Museum of Art
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Horace Bristol
1908
WA-00026380
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4
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10
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2
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- BiographyMoMA· 93%✓
- Birth yearMoMA· 93%✓
Source Registry (1)
- MoMA bulk 2026-05-04Tier 1 · Institutional92%
About
Why this artist matters now
Horace Bristol was an American photographer whose career spanned documentary work in the Pacific during World War II and extensive photojournalism in the postwar decades. His archive encompasses industrial landscapes, agricultural labor, and social conditions across the American West and Asia, executed in black and white with a modernist attention to compositional geometry and human scale. Bristol's photographs prioritize narrative clarity and formal restraint, avoiding sentimentality while maintaining deep engagement with his subjects.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 1mo ago
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Artworks (4)
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4 published of 7 catalogued · 5 with image
- MoMA3 publishedof 6 catalogued5 img
- Cleveland Museum of Art1 published
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1 entries · 1 sources
- 1946 · Cleveland · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
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Cleveland Museum of Art
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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