Marua Motherwell, New York
Artist
Erwin Blumenfeld
(American, born Germany, 1897 - 1969)
Dateca. 1941
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 13 7/8 x 11 inches (35.24 x 27.94 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.3894
InscribedStamp
Back of Print
Estate
Description: Estate stamp on back of print.
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionVintage gelatin silver print of images of a woman's face. Estate stamp on back of print. Reproduced: pl. 152, "Blumenfeld: A Fetish for Beauty".Exhibition HistoryAmerican Photography: Recent Additions to the Hallmark Photographic Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 27 – May 14, 2000, no cat.
Rotation 3. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 20 – August 18, 2008, no cat.
Rotation 15. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 19, 2013 – January 5, 2014, no cat.
Rotation 24. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 9 – November 12, 2017, no cat.
The art movement of Surrealism had an important influence in fashion photography of the 1930s and 1940s. Erwin Blumenfeld, a leading fashion photographer in his day, employed the Surrealists’ interest in the imagery of dreams. As this image demonstrates, he was fascinated by the visual play of positive and negative, and the ideas of reflection and fragmentation.
Danziger Gallery, New York, NY;
Purchased from Danziger Gallery by Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1997;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Purchased from Danziger Gallery by Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1997;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Copyright© Estate of Erwin Blumenfeld
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