Lot Essay
Another print of this image resides in the collection of The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
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The Lily, Mt. Kisco, 1918–1919
Details
CHARLES SHEELER (1883–1965)
The Lily, Mt. Kisco, 1918–1919
gelatin silver print, mounted on board
stamped photographer's credit and credited, annotated 'Photograph from nature', and variously otherwise annotated in pencil (mount, verso); credited, titled 'Water Lily' and dated '1918' on affixed gallery labels (frame backing board)
image/sheet: 9 5/8 x 7 1/2 in. (24.4 x 19 cm.)
mount: 11 x 9 in. (27.9 x 22.8 cm.)
The Lily, Mt. Kisco, 1918–1919
gelatin silver print, mounted on board
stamped photographer's credit and credited, annotated 'Photograph from nature', and variously otherwise annotated in pencil (mount, verso); credited, titled 'Water Lily' and dated '1918' on affixed gallery labels (frame backing board)
image/sheet: 9 5/8 x 7 1/2 in. (24.4 x 19 cm.)
mount: 11 x 9 in. (27.9 x 22.8 cm.)
Provenance
Robert Miller Gallery, New York;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 1981.
acquired from the above by the present owner, 1981.
Literature
Charles W. Millard III, Charles Sheeler: American Photographer, 'Contemporary Photographer', Vol. VI, No. 1, Community Press, Culpeper, Virginia, 1967, n.p.
Exhibition catalogue, Charles Sheeler: Paintings, Drawings, Photographs, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1987, pl. 8.
Exhibition catalogue, Charles Sheeler: Paintings, Drawings, Photographs, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1987, pl. 8.
Exhibited
New York, Richard York Gallery, The Natural Image: Plant Forms in American Modernism, November 6–December 4, 1982.
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