The Lily, Mt. Kisco
Artist
Charles Sheeler
(American, 1883 - 1965)
Date1918-1919
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 9 9/16 × 7 7/16 inches (24.28 × 18.85 cm)
Mount: 10 15/16 × 9 inches (27.76 × 22.86 cm)
Mount: 10 15/16 × 9 inches (27.76 × 22.86 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2017.68.148
SignedOn mount verso, top, in pencil: "Charles Sheeler";
Artist's stamp on mount verso, center, in black ink: "CHARLES SHEELER / 47 WEST 49TH STREET / NEW YORK".
InscribedOn mount verso, top, in pencil: "Photograph from nature."
MarkingsOn mount verso, upper left, in pencil: "B.";
On mount verso, top, in pencil: "[?]".
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionImage of a water lily with its reflection in the water. Other lily pads surround it as well as two buds that have yet to bloom.Exhibition HistoryRotation 26. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 29- August 25, 2019, no cat.
The Natural Image: Plant Forms in American Modernism, Richard York Gallery, New York, NY, November 6-December 4, 1982, no cat.
Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY;
Purchased from Robert Miller Gallery by Emily and Jerry Spiegel, Kings Point, NY, 1981;
Purchased at Emily and Jerry Spiegel's posthumous sale Visionaires: Photographs from the Emily and Jerry Spiegel Collection, Christie's, New York, October 10, 2017, lot 12 by the Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2017;
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2017.
Purchased from Robert Miller Gallery by Emily and Jerry Spiegel, Kings Point, NY, 1981;
Purchased at Emily and Jerry Spiegel's posthumous sale Visionaires: Photographs from the Emily and Jerry Spiegel Collection, Christie's, New York, October 10, 2017, lot 12 by the 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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