Scanned from a slide by Adam Pape. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.

Barbara Through Window

Artist Percy Wingfield Bullock (American, 1902-1975)

CultureAmerican

Date1956

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsOverall, Image: 9 1/2 × 7 9/16 in. (24.1 × 19.2 cm)
Overall, Support: 15 × 13 1/2 in. (38.1 × 34.3 cm)
Overall, Mat: 20 × 16 1/8 in. (50.8 × 41 cm)

InscribedSigned recto of the mount.

Credit LineMuseum purchase

Object number85.5

Not on view

DescriptionBlack and white gelatin silver print photograph showing the back of a nude female, reclined on the ground and propping her head up on her left arm, visible through an open window in a wooden building. Skylight enters the building through open slats in the roof.

Label TextWynn Bullock American (1902-1975) Barbara Through Window, 1956 Gelatin silver print Museum Purchase 85.5 Wynn Bullock invoked the purist aesthetics of the California-based Group f.64 tradition in his fine prints of nudes, nature scenes, and buildings; however, he extended the tradition to account for his conception of photography as an abstracting medium, one that should "express the fourth-dimensional structure of the real world." Trained extensively in music, Bullock experimented with the techniques for registering and reproducing light that he considered as pervasive and pliable as sound. Edited By: GLY Edited Date: 11/07/2003Exhibition History"A History of Photography: 15 Years of Photography at the Chrysler Museum," The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA; September 11, 1993-March 6, 1994. "Photographs from the Chrysler Museum," The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA, February 26-April 23, 1989 "Silver Images: The Photography Collection at 25," Alice R. and Sol B. Frank Photo Galleries, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va., November 5, 2003 - August 2004. "Making and Meaning: Selections from the Chrysler Museum of Art Collection," Baron and Ellin Gordon Art Galleries, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, June 1 - August 11, 2013.