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Artist Eva Watson-Schütze (American, 1867 - 1935)

Dateca. 1900

MediumPlatinum print

DimensionsImage and sheet: 8 1/16 × 4 5/16 inches (20.48 × 10.95 cm)
Mount (1): 11 5/8 × 6 1/2 inches (29.53 × 16.51 cm)
Mount (2): 15 1/8 × 7 5/16 inches (38.42 × 18.57 cm)

Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Object number2005.27.4460

Signednone

InscribedOn image recto, upper right corner, in pencil: [dragonfly monogram]

MarkingsOn mount 2 verso, center, in pencil: "1/4 flat gold"; On mount 2 verso, bottom, in pencil: "PF3962", "537-1-97", "38".

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DescriptionImage of two young women dressed in elaborately adorned nightgowns. One woman stands beside the other with her arm draped over the shoulder of the one who is seated.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Rotation 25. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, October 19, 2018- March 17, 2019, no cat.

Gallery Label

Eva Watson-Schütze often worked with women, posing them in romanticized compositions similar to those found in paintings of the time. Watson-Schütze studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts when she was only 16 years old. She took up photography in the 1890s, and participated in the Pictorialist movement. These photographers championed a high-art status for the medium by emulating painting.

Provenance

Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, NY;
Purchased from Howard Greenberg 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.

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