MARGARET WATKINS (1884-1969)

Domestic Symphony, 1920

Details

MARGARET WATKINS (1884-1969)
Domestic Symphony, 1920
gelatin silver print
signed, titled and annotated '46 Jane Street, N.Y.C. Please give credit' in ink (on the verso)
image: 8¼ x 6 3/8in. (21 x 16.3cm.)
sheet: 8 3/8 x 6½in. (21.3 x 16.5cm.)

Provenance

With Edwynn Houk Gallery, Chicago

Literature

Fulton, ed., Pictorialism into Modernism: The Clarence White School of Photography, Rizzoli, 1996, p. 161; Pauli, Margaret Watkins: Domestic Symphonies, National Gallery of Canada, 2012, pl. 58 and front cover

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Lot Essay

Born in Canada, Margaret Watkins first enrolled in the Clarence White School of Photography in 1914 and was an intermittent member of his staff from 1919-1925. She settled in Scotland in 1928 and abandoned her photographic career. Extant prints by Watkins are therefore extremely rare. This, her most important image, is believed to be one of only five known prints at the time of this writing.

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