Frank Eugene

1907

Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    Autochrome

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 17.1 × 11.9 cm (6 3/4 × 4 11/16 in.)
    overall: 18 × 13 cm (7 1/16 × 5 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1949.3.298

  • Key Set Number

    317

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

Bibliography

2002

  • Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 317.

Wikidata ID

Q64034808

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

A founding member of the Photo-Secession, Frank Eugene (born Frank Eugene Smith in New York City) studied painting at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. After his return to the United States in 1894 he worked as a stage designer and portrait painter and learned how to photograph. In 1907 Eugene was appointed to the staff of the Institute of Photography in Munich-Schwabing and in 1913 to the chair of nature photography at the Royal Academy of Graphic Arts, Leipzig.

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