The Flatiron, plate 25, in the book Steichen
Edward Steichen, American (born Luxembourg), 1879 - 1973
negative date unknown; print about 1906
Three-color halftone adhered to handmade laid paper
23/65
Mount: 17 × 11 in. (43.2 × 27.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Frederick L. Hier, Class of 1944, in memory of his father, Frederick P. Hier Jr.
PH.973.175.5.25
Publisher
Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946), New York
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Photograph
Research Area
Photograph
Not on view
Course History
ARTH 48.02, History of Photography, Katie Hornstein, Winter 2020
Art History 48.02, Histories of Photography, Katie Hornstein, Spring 2024
Studio Art 65.01, Architecture I, Zenovia Toloudi, Spring 2024
Studio Art 66.01, Studio Art 68.01, Archiecture II/III, Zenovia Toloudi, Spring 2024
Exhibition History
Figures and Structures: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 2-March 10, 1996.
Night Visions: Nocturnes in American Art, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, June 25-October 18, 2015.
Picturing New York: Images of the City, 1890-1955, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 31-June 21, 1992.
Signs of Modern Life: Photographs from the Collections of Jane and Raphael Bernstein and Dartmouth College, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 13-October 25, 1998.
Publication History
Barbara MacAdam, "Picturing New York: Images of the City,1890-1955", Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1992, no.61.
Joachim Homann, Night Vision: Nocturnes in American Art, 1860-1960, Munich, London, New York: Delmonico Books / Prestel, 2016, 176 pp., ill. p. 79.
Published References
Daniel, Malcolm. "Edward J. Steichen (1879–1973): The Photo-Secession Years". In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nov. 2010) http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/stei/hd_stei.htm Daniel, Malcolm. Stieglitz Steichen Strand. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011). Hartmann, Celia. “The Edward Steichen Archive in The Museum of Modern Art Archives.” MoMA The Museum of Modern Art. 2011. < https://www.moma.org/learn/resources/archives/EAD/steichenb.html#series2> Longwell, Dennis. Steichen: The Master Prints, 1895-1917: The Symbolist Period. (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1978). Smith, Joel. Edward Steichen: The Early Years. (New York: Princeton University Press in association with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999). “Steichen [The Steichen Book].” Irving Zucker Art Books. http://www.zuckerartbooks.com/cgi-bin/zab/715.html Steichen: Selected Texts and Bibliography. Edited by Ronald J. Gedrim. (New York: G. K. Hall & Co., 1996).
Provenance
Frederick P. Hier, Jr. (1889-1957); to his son, Frederick L. Hier (1922-1999), Cornish Flats, New Hampshire; given to present collection, 1973..
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