Artworks · Clarence John Laughlin

Reality as a Stage Set

1965 · Gelatin silver print

Museum of Modern Art

The Improbable Dome (No.1), The Selfridge Mansion, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin

1964 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 34.9 × 27.6 cm (13 3/4 × 10 7/8 in.); Mount: 43.3 × 35.7 cm (17 1/16 × 14 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Female Tryphons

1962 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 19.9 × 25.1 cm (7 7/8 × 9 15/16 in.); Mount: 20.2 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Canine Lion

1962 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 19.7 × 24.9 cm (7 13/16 × 9 13/16 in.); Mount: 20.3 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago Poem in Shadow and Iron, 4419 Drexel Boulevard

1962 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 35 × 27.7 cm (13 13/16 × 10 15/16 in.); Paper: 35.6 × 28.5 cm (14 1/16 × 11 1/4 in.); Mount: 43.4 × 35.6 cm (17 1/8 × 14 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Spectre of Coca-Cola

1962 · Gelatin silver print, printed 1981

13 1/4 × 10 3/8" (33.6 × 26.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Weight of Hope

1960 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 35 × 27.4 cm (13 13/16 × 10 13/16 in.); Mount: 43.1 × 35.6 cm (17 × 14 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Phantom of Neverland

1958 · Gelatin silver print

15 1/4 × 18 3/4" (38.8 × 47.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Flowers of the Night Land

1955 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 26.7 × 34.7 cm (10 9/16 × 13 11/16 in.); Mount: 35.7 × 43.4 cm (14 1/16 × 17 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Conclave of Monsters (The Tree as Demonology)

1954 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper, at widest point: 35.1 × 27.4 cm (13 7/8 × 10 13/16 in.); Mount: 43.4 × 35.7 cm (17 1/8 × 14 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Light Forms Against the Jungle

1954 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 26.9 × 33.6 cm (10 5/8 × 13 1/4 in.); Mount: 35.6 × 45.8 cm (14 1/16 × 18 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Life Flourishes by Death (#1)

1954 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 34.1 × 27.3 cm (13 7/16 × 10 3/4 in.); Mount: 43.2 × 35.6 cm (17 1/16 × 14 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Vision of Dead Desire

1954 · gelatin silver print, waxed or varnished

image and paper: 34 x 23.5 cm (13 3/8 x 9 1/4 in.); Mounted: 43 x 35.4 cm (16 15/16 x 13 15/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Our Lady of Decay (#1)

1953 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 34.7 × 27.9 cm (13 11/16 × 11 in.); Mount: 43.2 × 35.6 cm (17 1/16 × 14 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Massive Dance (The Tree as Visual Movement)

1953 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 34.8 × 27.1 cm (13 3/4 × 10 11/16 in.); Mount: 43.2 × 35.6 cm (17 1/16 × 14 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Spider in the Wax

1953 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 34.9 × 27.2 cm (13 3/4 × 10 3/4 in.); Mount: 46.1 × 35.6 cm (18 3/16 × 14 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

In Magical Light

1953 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 33.2 × 26.6 cm (13 1/8 × 10 1/2 in.); Mount: 43.2 × 35.7 cm (17 1/16 × 14 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Bird of Dread (#2)

1953 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 34.8 × 27.8 cm (13 3/4 × 11 in.); Mount: 43.2 × 35.6 cm (17 1/16 × 14 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

From a Sunken Fairyland

1953 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 27.6 × 35.2 cm (10 7/8 × 13 7/8 in.); Paper: 28 × 35.5 cm (11 1/16 × 14 in.); Mount: 35.9 × 43.2 cm (14 3/16 × 17 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Twisted Cross

1953 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 34.8 × 27.6 cm (13 3/4 × 10 7/8 in.); Mount: 43.2 × 35.6 cm (17 1/16 × 14 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Solidity of the Shadows

1953 · Gelatin silver print

10 3/4 × 13 5/8" (27.5 × 34.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Insect-Headed Tombstone

1953 · Gelatin silver print

13 5/8 × 10 7/8" (34.6 × 27.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Language of Light

1952 · Gelatin silver print

10 1/4 × 13" (26.0 × 33.0 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Power of a Shadow

1952 · Gelatin silver print

13 3/4 × 10 3/4" (35.0 × 27.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Sagging House

1951 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 27.3 × 34.1 cm (10 3/4 × 13 7/16 in.); Mount: 35.5 × 43.2 cm (14 × 17 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

An Unkempt Tombstone

1951 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 34.2 × 27 cm (13 1/2 × 10 11/16 in.); Mount: 43.2 × 35.6 cm (17 1/16 × 14 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Church of the Double Spires (Rural LA)

1951 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 33.7 × 26.8 cm (13 5/16 × 10 9/16 in.); Mount: 43.2 × 35.5 cm (17 1/16 × 14 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Weary Porch

1951 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 34.4 × 27.2 cm (13 9/16 × 10 3/4 in.); Mount: 43.1 × 35.5 cm (17 × 14 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Final Paradise for Dead Birds

1951 · Gelatin silver print

11 × 13 3/4" (27.9 × 34.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Africo-Victorian

1950 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 34.1 × 26.9 cm (13 7/16 × 10 5/8 in.); Mount: 43.4 × 35.7 cm (17 1/8 × 14 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Louisiana Pastoral (#2)

1949 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 27.3 × 33.7 cm (10 3/4 × 13 5/16 in.); Mount: 37.7 × 43.3 cm (14 7/8 × 17 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Autonomous Spiral

1949 · gelatin silver print

Image: 34.1 x 26.9 cm (13 7/16 x 10 9/16 in.); Paper: 34.1 x 26.9 cm (13 7/16 x 10 9/16 in.); Mounted: 43.3 x 35.5 cm (17 1/16 x 14 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Tree of Immensity (Old Louisiana State Capitol)

1949 · gelatin silver print

image and paper: 50.4 x 40.1 cm (19 13/16 x 15 13/16 in.); Mounted: 61 x 45.8 cm (24 x 18 1/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

The Sinister Old Lady

1948 · Gelatin silver print

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Hellenic Flower (#2) (Asphodel Plantation)

1948 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 26.8 × 33.9 cm (10 9/16 × 13 3/8 in.); Mount: 35.6 × 43.3 cm (14 1/16 × 17 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Flower of Plaster (#1) (Asphodel Plantation)

1948 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 27.1 × 34 cm (10 11/16 × 13 7/16 in.); Mount: 35.6 × 43.3 cm (14 1/16 × 17 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Hellenic Flower (#4) (Asphodel Plantation)

1948 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 27 × 34.2 cm (10 11/16 × 13 1/2 in.); Mount: 35.6 × 43.3 cm (14 1/16 × 17 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Masks Grow to Us

1947 · Gelatin silver print

13 3/16 × 10 3/16" (33.5 × 25.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The House of the Past

1947 · Composite printing

13 3/4 × 10 3/4" (35.0 × 27.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

New Orleans Cemetery: Gate of the Weeping Cherub, No. 1

1946 · Gelatin silver print

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Apparition (No. 9), Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans, LA

1946 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper/first mount: 33.7 × 27.1 cm (13 5/16 × 10 11/16 in.); Second mount: 43.3 × 35.7 cm (17 1/16 × 14 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Gothic Revival Entrance

1946 · Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 34.3 × 26.1 cm (13 9/16 × 10 5/16 in.); Mount: 43.4 × 35.6 cm (17 1/8 × 14 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Shell Spiral (No. 1)

1946 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 33.8 × 27.2 cm (13 5/16 × 10 3/4 in.); Paper: 34.6 × 28 cm (13 5/8 × 11 1/16 in.); Mount: 43.1 × 35.5 cm (17 × 14 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Titanic Arcade

1946 · gelatin silver print, waxed or varnished

Image: 33.4 x 27.4 cm (13 1/8 x 10 13/16 in.); Paper: 33.9 x 27.9 cm (13 3/8 x 11 in.); Mounted: 43.1 x 35.6 cm (16 15/16 x 14 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

The Eye That Never Sleeps

1946 · Gelatin silver print

12 3/8 × 8 3/4" (31.4 × 22.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Apparition (No. 9)

1946 · Gelatin silver print

13 3/4 × 10 3/4" (35.0 × 27.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Pest Hater's Nightmare

1945 · Gelatin silver print

10 7/16 × 13 5/16" (26.6 × 33.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Head and the Wall

1945 · Gelatin silver print

10 1/2 × 13 3/4" (26.7 × 34.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art