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The Language of Light

Artist Clarence John Laughlin (American, 1905 - 1985)
Date1952
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall: 10 1/4 x 13 inches (26.04 x 33.02 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.1650
InscribedSignature Signed in artist's hand Front of Mount Copyright see description Back of Mount Description: "Print No. 10, Photograph copyrighted 1973 by C.J. Laughlin; All reproduction rights reserved." Notations "7731; B#678, 5/7/81; #6" Back of Mount Pen
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DescriptionGelatin silver print, Signature on front of mount. Copyright notice and notations on back of mount.Exhibition History

New Acquisitions to the Hallmark Photographic Collection, 1980-1983. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, April 1 –  May 1, 1983.

Twentieth-Century Photographers: Selections from the HPC. Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, OH, March 28 - April 27, 1996, no cat.

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Elegy For the Old South, #6.
Clarence John Laughlin
1946
2005.27.1651
Birds in Hyperspace
Clarence John Laughlin
1935
2005.27.1767
Bostonian Shoppers
Wendell MacRae
1930
2005.27.2769
Three Vistas Through One Wall
Clarence John Laughlin
May 8, 1937; printed 1946
2005.27.1761
The Disastrous Gate
Clarence John Laughlin
1941
2005.27.1703
The Portent in the Shadow
Clarence John Laughlin
1954
2005.27.1757
The Ambiguity of Positive and Negative.
Clarence John Laughlin
1961
2005.27.1708
A Multinational Group of Vaults (Unlike Rectangles).
Clarence John Laughlin
November 14, 1937; printed later
2005.27.1676
The House of the Lost( The Melieu of Loss)
Clarence John Laughlin
1940; printed 1981
2005.27.1672
Breathing Marble
Clarence John Laughlin
1962; printed 1979
2005.27.1674
A Vision of Dead Desire
Clarence John Laughlin
1954; printed 1981
2005.27.1689
The Trap of Desire
Clarence John Laughlin
October 6, 1940; printed 1976
2005.27.1691