Onion Ailsa Craig
Artist
Charles Jones
(English, 1866 - 1959)
Dateca. 1900
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 8 3/16 × 6 3/16 inches (20.8 × 15.72 cm)
Sheet: 8 1/2 × 6 7/16 inches (21.59 × 16.35 cm)
Mount: 12 1/2 × 10 7/16 inches (31.75 × 26.51 cm)
Sheet: 8 1/2 × 6 7/16 inches (21.59 × 16.35 cm)
Mount: 12 1/2 × 10 7/16 inches (31.75 × 26.51 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2016.75.120
Signednone
Inscribednone
Markingsnone
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DescriptionImage of a perfectly formed, unpeeled onion.Exhibition HistoryRotation 26. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 29, 2019- August 25, 2019, no cat.
Charles Jones’s expertise as a photographer was only discovered in 1981, when a trunk of his elegant prints of fruits, vegetables, and flowers came to light. Jones was an English gardener who spent his career working on private estates. His bold and precise studies of natural forms anticipate the modernist artistic currents that would characterize the 1920s and 1930s.
Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2016;
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2016.
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2016.
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