Heavy Roses, Voulangis, France
Artist
Edward Steichen
(American, born Luxembourg, 1879 - 1973)
Date1914; printed later
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 10 11/16 × 13 11/16 inches (27.15 × 34.77 cm)
Sheet: 10 13/16 × 13 13/16 inches (27.46 × 35.08 cm)
Mount: 10 15/16 × 13 7/8 inches (27.78 × 35.24 cm)
Sheet: 10 13/16 × 13 13/16 inches (27.46 × 35.08 cm)
Mount: 10 15/16 × 13 7/8 inches (27.78 × 35.24 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.2185
SignedSigned on image recto, lower right, in pencil: "STEICHEN";
On mount verso, upper left, in pencil: "Steichen / print signed in lower / right hand corner."
InscribedTitled and dated on mount verso, upper left, in pencil: "Heavy Roses June 1914"
Markingsnone
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DescriptionClose-up image of a bouquet of lightly colored, wilting roses against a black background.Exhibition HistoryFlora Photographica: The Flower in Photography, from 1835 to the Present. The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Québec, Canada. April 1993 - May 1994 (traveled).
The Power of Flowers. Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO, June 8 - July 28, 1998.
Purchased from the artist by Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1969;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Copyright© The Estate of Edward Steichen / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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Diane Arbus
1967; printed ca. 1975
2005.27.602
