Girls' Gym Class

Artist Frank Lloyd Wright (American, 1867 - 1959)

Date1900

MediumCollotype

DimensionsImage: 7 9/16 × 9 inches (19.21 × 22.86 cm)
Sheet (irregular): 8 × 10 1/8 inches (20.32 × 25.72 cm)
Mount: 11 1/4 × 13 9/16 inches (28.58 × 34.45 cm)

Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Object number2005.27.4534

Signednone

InscribedOn sheet recto, bottom margin, in pencil: "GIRLS GYM CLASS in 1900"

Markingsnone

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DescriptionImage of girls, wearing gym clothes, in school yard with a ball.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

American Photography: Recent Additions to the Hallmark Photographic Collection. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 27 – May 14, 2000, no cat.

Hide & Seek: Picturing Childhood. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 26, 2009 – February 21, 2010, no cat.

The Sports Show. Minneapolis Institute of Art, February 19 - May 13, 2012, no. 17.

Rotation 21. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 12 – July 31, 2016, no cat.

Gallery Label

The rise of the amateur camera made photography available to everyone, including the architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Here, Wright pictures a girls’ exercise class at the Hillside Home School. Wright’s eye for structural relationships is evident: the vertical lines of the girls and the trees are set alongside the long horizontal shadows on the ground. The Hillside Home School was a progressive school located in Spring Green, Wisconsin, and was run by Wright’s aunts. In addition to academic achievement, Hillside emphasized personal growth, physical activity, artistic self-expression and love of nature.

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