WattsOS
FW
Fortuneteller with Glass
1946 · gelatin silver print
Image: 5.6 x 5.6 cm (2 3/16 x 2 3/16 in.); Mounted: 12.7 x 12.2 cm (5 x 4 13/16 in.)
Cleveland Museum of Art
WATTS INDEXThe canonical database of visual culture
Horace Bristol
Artist
Representation
None documented
0
Institutional Exhibitions
1
Works in Collection
2
Assets Indexed
1
Authority-backed Facts
0
Publications Referenced
70%
Profile Completeness
Cultural Positioning
Movements
No movements recorded
Related Artists
No edges recorded
Influence Graph
No influence edges encoded yet.
About
Why this artist matters now
Horace Bristol was an American photographer whose career spanned documentary work in the Pacific during World War II and extensive photojournalism in the postwar decades. His archive encompasses industrial landscapes, agricultural labor, and social conditions across the American West and Asia, executed in black and white with a modernist attention to compositional geometry and human scale. Bristol's photographs prioritize narrative clarity and formal restraint, avoiding sentimentality while maintaining deep engagement with his subjects.
Source: Artsy · Trust score: 85% · Updated 1mo ago
Graph relationships
Taste overlap and adjacency
Movement
—
Medium
—
Related Artists
6 in graph
Canonical record
Artworks (1)
Record
Images
Related artists
Adjacent in the graph
Record
Movements and affiliations
No movements linked yet
Record
Exhibitions and timeline
No exhibitions or timeline entries yet