Frederick H. Evans (1853–1943)
Frederick H. Evans (1853–1943)

Height and Light in Bourges Cathedral, 1900

Details
Frederick H. Evans (1853–1943)
Height and Light in Bourges Cathedral, 1900
platinum print, mounted on paper, mounted on card
blindstamped initials (mount, recto); titled 'Bourges Cathedral' in pencil (secondary mount, recto); credited on photographer's Ex Libris affixed label and titled 'Height + Light' in pencil (secondary mount, verso)
image/sheet: 9 3/4 x 5 3/4 in. (24.8 x 14.6 cm.)
mount: 10 3/4 x 6 1/2 in. (27.3 x 16.6 cm.)
secondary mount: 20 1/2 x 12 3/4 in. (52.1 x 32.4 cm.)
Provenance
The Witkin Gallery, New York;
acquired from the above by John M. Bransten, San Francisco, 1972;
by descent to the present owner.
Literature
Alfred Stieglitz, Camera Work, New York, no. 4, October 1903, pl. III (variant).

Beaumont Newhall, Frederick H. Evans, Aperture, Millerton, 1973, cover.

Exhibition catalogue, The Photographs of Frederick H. Evans, the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2010, fig. 21, p. 22 (variant) and pl. 77, p. 106.
Exhibited
San Francisco, California, The Focus Gallery, Collector's Choice II, December 4, 1973–January 5, 1974.

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