Edward Steichen Sketching in the Woods
Artist
Alvin Langdon Coburn
(British, born in America, 1882–1966)
Dateabout 1901
Mediumplatinum print
Dimensions6.2 x 10.4 cm (2 7/16 x 4 1/8 in.)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineTheodore T. and Mary G. Ellis Fund
Object number1997.112
Label TextOn his eighth birthday, Coburn received his first camera as a gift. He took it along when he traveled to Europe at age sixteen. There he met the American artist Edward Steichen (1879-1973) who was studying painting in Paris, and they began a lasting friendship.
Coburn probably made this photograph near the house that Steichen rented at Mamaroneck, New York. Its soft focus relates to Steichen’s Tonalist-style paintings at the time. That winter Coburn joined the Photo-Secession and his photographs were featured in the first issue of Camera Work magazine.
ProvenanceCharles Isaacs, Malvern, PAOn View
Not on view
