Autumn
Artist
George H. Seeley
(American, 1880 - 1955)
Date1905
MediumPlatinum print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 13 1/8 × 10 5/16 inches (33.34 × 26.19 cm)
Mount: 21 1/8 × 17 9/16 inches (53.66 × 44.61 cm)
Mount: 21 1/8 × 17 9/16 inches (53.66 × 44.61 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.4071
SignedSigned in artist's hand on image recto, lower right, in pencil: "George H. Seeley. / 1905."
Signed and titled "Autumn by George H. Seeley, Stockbridge, Mass., U.S.A." Back of Print In Crayon
Inscribednone
Markingsnone
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George H. Seeley embraced photography as a tool of artistic expression. Like many Pictorialists, Seeley viewed photography as equal to painting in its capacity to convey mood and feeling. As depicted here, Seeley favored allegorical subjects that situated models in otherworldly realms. The young woman’s kimono and the picture’s asymmetrical composition suggest the influence of Japanese design. As one critic of the time noted, Seeley’s photographs “present to us not nature, but a recollection of what we once saw, or thought we saw, when in a dreamy mood.”
Charles Isaacs, New York, NY;
Purchased from Charles Isaacs by Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1987;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas CIty, MO, 2005.
Purchased from Charles Isaacs by Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1987;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas CIty, MO, 2005.
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