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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1991.4
People
Edward Steichen, American (Luxembourg 1879 - 1973 West Redding, Conn., USA)
Title
Dana Steichen
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1923
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/284919

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Palladium print
Technique
Palladium print
Dimensions
image: 35.6 x 26 cm (14 x 10 1/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Joanna T. Steichen, New York, from a storage closet at the artist's home, gift to the Harvard University Art Museums, 1991. Formerly on loan at the Fogg, 1973. This image was found by Davis Pratt in January 1973 in a storage cabinet at the artist's home in Redding, Connecticut during a weekend visit by Pratt, who purchased a number of works during that visit, when Joanna Steichen agreed to place this image on long term loan and as a promised gift.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Joanna T. Steichen
Copyright
© The Estate of Edward Steichen / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1991
Object Number
P1991.4
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • James Cuno, ed., A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions by the Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, Mass., Spring 2000), p. 71, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

  • A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions of Photographs, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/29/2000 - 07/23/2000
  • HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 10 Rotation 3), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 11/12/2010 - 01/15/2011

Verification Level

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