Water Rats
1986 · Photogravure, from "Sun Artists, Number 8" (1891)
Image: 12.6 × 17.7 cm (5 × 7 in.); Paper: 28 × 37.9 cm (11 1/16 × 14 15/16 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
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Frank Meadow Sutcliffe
British, 1853
Headingley, UK
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New Acquisitions: Photographs
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1942
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Frank Meadow Sutcliffe was a British photographer known for his documentary photographs of fishing communities and maritime life in Whitby, Yorkshire, between the 1880s and early 1900s. Working with large-format cameras and platinum and gelatin silver prints, he captured the daily labor and social fabric of working-class coastal life with both ethnographic precision and compositional sensitivity. His archive of thousands of glass negatives documents a vanishing way of life and remains a primary historical record of late Victorian and Edwardian working communities.
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