Johan Hagemeyer and Edward Weston
Artist
Margrethe Mather
(American, 1885 - 1952)
Date1921
MediumPlatinum print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 7 5/8 × 7 3/8 inches (19.37 × 18.73 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.4260
SignedSigned and dated on front of mount, lower right, in pencil "Margrethe Mather - 1921"
InscribedInscribed on front of mount, lower left, in pencil "Johan Hagemeyer and Edward Weston"
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionImage of two men facing one another, their faces are cropped at the edges of the frame. The man on the left wears a cap and holds a pipe in his mouth.Exhibition HistoryRotation 6. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 13 – December 7, 2009, no cat.
In this unconventional composition, Margrethe Mather radically cropped the faces of her subjects, boldly making the negative space between them the central element of the picture. Mather was a close friend of her subjects, photographers Johan Hagemeyer and Edward Weston. Although Mather’s exhibition career was relatively short, lasting from about 1917 to 1921, she was an artist of profound originality. Her most remarkable work may be this double portrait of her closest artistic friends.
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