Harry Reuben Reynolds (aka H. Reuben Reynolds)

American
(1898–1974)

Untitled
1950

Gelatin silverprint
20 x 16.375 in.
Gift of Zina and Harry Reuben Reynolds
1987.271

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This object has the following keywords:

• erasers - Devices, such as pieces of rubber or cloth, for removing marks made with pen, pencil, chalk, or the like.
• flashbulbs - Single-use bulbs that give a single bright burst of light, triggered by a camera, and synched to the shutter.
• ink - A fluid medium used for drawings or tracings. An opaque, usually black, pigment is mixed with a vehicle such as water to produce a fluid which can be applied with a pen or brush. Through the end of the 19th century, ink was supplied dried in stick or block form which was ground and mixed with water as needed. At the beginning of this century prepared ink became popular.
• paper
• pencils - Implements comprising rods of a marking substance, enclosed in wood, plastic, or metal, and used for writing or drawing. Common examples of materials used in pencils are graphite, lead, and pigmented wax.
• rulers - Straight-edged strips or cylinders of medium size, usually of wood, metal, plastic, or ivory and having demarcations to indicate units of measurement, used for measuring and for guiding a pen, pencil, or other marking-instrument in forming straight lines upon paper or another material. They are used in geometry, drafting, drawing, carpentry, building, interior design, crafts, and other disciplines. For very long bars or strips of wood or metal having straight and true edges and used for a variety of purposes, including cutting or establishing the evenness of surfaces, use "straightedges."
• scissors - Cutting tools consisting of two bevel-edged cutting blades and handles, and being movable past one another on a pivot in the center by which they are held together.
• still lifes - Images in which the focus is a depiction of inanimate objects, as distinguished from art in which such objects are subsidiary elements in a composition.The term is generally applied to depictions of fruit, flowers, meat or dead game, vessels, eating utensils, and other objects, including skulls, candles, and hourglasses, typically arranged on a table. Such images were known since the time of ancient Greece and Rome; however, the subject was exploited by some 16th-century Italian painters, and was highly developed in 17th-century Dutch painting, where the qualities of form, color, texture, and composition were valued, and the images were intended to relay allegorical messages. The subject is generally seen in oil paintings, though it can also be found in mosaics, watercolors, prints, collages, and photographs. The term originally included paintings in which the focus was on living animals at rest, although such depictions would now be called "animal paintings."
• tacks - Small, sharp-pointed nail-like fasteners of iron or brass with a comparatively large head and used for fastening a light or thin object to something more solid.

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

• HONR 3020 Politics & Aesthetics Space , 3/28/2022 - 8/29/2022