Untitled (Man flying plane)

Artist Captain Alfred George Buckham (English, 1879 - 1956)

Date1918

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage and sheet: 18 1/16 × 14 15/16 inches (45.88 × 37.94 cm)
Mount: 25 7/8 × 20 7/8 inches (65.72 × 53.02 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation

Object number2017.61.4

SignedSigned on mount recto, lower right, in pencil: “Alfred G. Buckham”

Inscribednone

MarkingsOn mount verso, bottom, in pencil: “PF38696H”; On mount verso, lower right, in pencil: “PF38696H”.

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DescriptionImage of man seated in open cockpit of a biplane. Large billowy clouds fill the sky above him.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Rotation 26. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 29, 2019- August 25, 2019, no cat.

Gallery Label

Captain Alfred George Buckham was history’s first great aerial photographer. After joining the Royal Naval Air Service as a photographer in 1917, he became the first head of aerial reconnaissance for the Royal Navy. Buckham created a celebrated body of artistic photographs that often focus on the abstract beauty of clouds, seen in relative close-up from their own level of the atmosphere.

Provenance

Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2017;
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2017.

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