Young Woman Holding Roses
Medium
Gelatin silver print mounted to glass
Dimensions
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Classification
Photograph
Department
Photography
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
The Julius L. Greenfield Photography Acquisition Fund
Accession Number
2022.15
Tags
male
About this artwork
James Arthur created this photograph as art, a radical concept for a photograph at the time. He indicates that elevated status by signing and dating it like a painting. The young woman cradling the roses—which still have their thorns—calls upon traditional art historical and literary allegories of the transitory nature of beauty and youth.