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Barbara Van Cleve
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Artist's Biography Barbara Van Cleve personifies the real West. Descended from Montana pioneers, she was born and raised on her family's historic ranch near Big Timber, Montana. By age eleven she was photographing with a Brownie Box camera. Today she is nationally famous for her photographs of the western range, ranchers, rodeos, cowboys, and cattle women. A lifetime of ranching and a superb technical command of photography account for the power and beauty of her photographs which range from crisp documents of ranch life, to stimulating images of movement, myth and imagination. In 1995 Van Cleve was inducted into the National Cow girl Hall of Fame in recognition for her great achievements in photography. Barbara Van Cleve's photographs have been the subject of the book Roughstock Sonnets (1989), and a documentary video of her life and work called Capturing Grace (1993). A book of her photographs of ranch women entitled Hard Twist (a western term describing a tightly twisted lariat rope, as well as a resilient person) was published in January 1995 by the Indianapolis Eiteljorg Museum of American Indian and Western Art and has enjoyed enormous success. The publication included a special leather bound limited edition of Hard Twist. |
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ANDREW SMITH GALLERY, INC.
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