"Mr. and Mrs.," The Sandburgs, Elmhurst, Illinois
Artist
Edward Steichen
(American, born Luxembourg, 1879 - 1973)
Date1923
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 10 9/16 × 13 9/16 inches (26.83 × 34.45 cm)
Mount: 11 × 14 inches (27.94 × 35.56 cm)
Mount: 11 × 14 inches (27.94 × 35.56 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.4397
SignedSigned on image recto, lower right, in white pencil: "STEICHEN"
InscribedOn mount verso, bottom, in pencil: "The Sandburgs VF. Nov. 1923"
MarkingsOn mount verso, center, in pencil: "85"
On View
Not on viewCollections
Terms
Faces: an Exhibition from the Hallmark Photographic Collection. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 16 -October 21, 1984, no cat.
Rotation 4. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, August 20, 2008 – January 15, 2009, no cat.
Rotation 8. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, May 12 – October 11, 2010, no cat.
After his success as an avant-garde artistic photographer, Edward Steichen turned away from largely private pursuits to use photography as a tool of mass communication. Based in New York City in the 1920s and 1930s, he became the world's leading advertising, fashion and portrait photographer. This photograph, one of the first of Steichen's many celebrity portraits to appear in Vanity Fair magazine, depicts his sister Lillian with her husband, the poet Carl Sandburg. This image is slightly unusual for this period in his work for having been made outside the controlled environment of the studio.
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.
Keith F. Davis, Faces, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Hallmark Cards, Inc., 1984), cover.
Copyright© The Estate of Edward Steichen / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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