Edward Steichen (American, 1879-1973). Wheelbarrow with Flower Pots, 1920. Gelatin silver contact print, printed 1930's...

Description

Edward Steichen (American, 1879-1973)
Wheelbarrow with Flower Pots, 1920
Gelatin silver contact print, printed 1930's
7-5/8 x 9-5/8 inches (19.4 x 24.4 cm)
Titled and dated in pencil in an unknown hand, with the Museum of Modern Art Publicity Department return stamp and Steichen The Photographer, March 28-May 21, 1961 exhibition label affixed to verso.

LITERATURE:
T. Brandow and William A. Ewing, Edward Steichen: Lives in Photography (Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography, Minneapolis and the Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, 2007), pl. 75;
Samuel M. Kootz, 'Edward J. Steichen,' Creative Art, May 1932, p. 363;
Steichen the Photographer (The Museum of Modern Art, 1961), p. 32;
Edward Steichen, A Life in Photography (Garden City, 1963), pl. 67;
LIFE Library of Photography: The Art of Photography (New York, 1971), p. 49;
Steichen-Eduard et Voulangis: The Early Modernist Period, 1915-1923 (Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, and Lumière Press, Toronto, 2011), p. 25.


More information about Edward Steichen. See also: Steichen, Edward, Edward Jean Steichen, Steichen, Edouard J. Artist.



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