Woman Carrying Child
Artist
Paul Strand
(American, 1890 - 1976)
Dateca. 1915
MediumPlatinum print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 12 5/8 × 9 1/2 inches (32.07 × 24.13 cm)
Mount: 13 1/4 × 10 1/8 inches (33.66 × 25.72 cm)
Mount: 13 1/4 × 10 1/8 inches (33.66 × 25.72 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.4383
Signednone
Inscribednone
MarkingsOn mount verso, top left corner, in pencil: "EW-MISC-306B" , "TI";
On mount verso, bottom center, in pencil: "17-28-93"
Edition/State/ProofProbably unique print
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionImage of a woman, carrying a child, walking past a large building with window.Exhibition HistoryRotation 4. The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO. August 20, 2008 – January 15, 2009, no cat.
World War I and the Rise of Modernism. The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO. January 9 – October 18, 2015, no cat.
Strand was one of the first artistic photographers to synthesize Pictorialist themes with a new, bolder, modern vision. Strand's first mature works, made in 1914-1916, depict human figures within the harsh geometry of the city. Here, the slightly asymmetrical frame, splatter marks on the wall, and ominous vacancy of the open window combine to create a mood of tension and unease. Strand thus charges the traditional mother and child motif with a prototypically modern tone of ambiguity and complexity.
Houk Friedman Gallery, New York, NY;
Purchased from Houk Friedman Gallery by Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1991;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Aktins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Purchased from Houk Friedman Gallery by Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1991;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Aktins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
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