The Pine Sprite
Artist
Anne Brigman
(American, 1868 - 1950)
Date1912
MediumPlatinum print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 7 5/16 × 9 7/16 inches (18.57 × 23.97 cm)
Mount (1): 7 13/16 × 9 15/16 inches (19.84 × 25.24 cm)
Mount (2): 11 7/8 × 15 5/8 inches (30.16 × 39.69 cm)
Mount (1): 7 13/16 × 9 15/16 inches (19.84 × 25.24 cm)
Mount (2): 11 7/8 × 15 5/8 inches (30.16 × 39.69 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.3897
SignedSigned on mount 2 recto, lower left, in pencil: "[signature] / -12"
InscribedOn mount 2 verso, upper left, in pencil: "The Pine Sprite"
Markingsnone
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DescriptionDark image of a nude woman sitting on the branch of a tree and looking away from the viewer.Gallery LabelAnne W. Brigman, a long-time resident of Oakland, California, was a leading figure in the Pictorialist movement of the early 20th century. Her images exemplify several key traits: they are moody, poetic and symbolic, suggesting a pantheistic union of human figures and the larger forces of nature. As one critic of the time noted, in Brigman's photographs "all sense of separation between the human being and nature is gone, and both seem part of all that is beautiful in elemental conditions."
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