Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit its Acquisitions Program
Anne W. Brigman
The Dying Cedar
Lot closes
October 21, 07:05 PM GMT
Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 USD
Starting Bid
4,800 USD
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Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit its Acquisitions Program
Anne W. Brigman
1869 - 1950
The Dying Cedar
signed and titled in pencil (on the mount); titled and dated 1908 in ink (on the reverse); signed and dated 1948 in ink (on a label on the reverse)
gelatin silver print, mounted
9¼ by 6¼ in.
23.5 by 15.9 cm.
Executed in 1908, printed no later than 1948.
Please note that this lot will not be on view during the sale exhibition. It is located at our Long Island City, New York storage facility. If you would like to examine it in person before the sale please contact Natalie Alford at Natalie.Alford@sothebys.com.
Gift of the photographer in 1948 to the present owner
Camera Work, No. 25, January 1909, pl. II, illustrated
Anne Brigman, Songs of a Pagan, Caldwell, 1949, p. 49, illustrated
Anne Brigman: Pictorial Photographer/Pagan/Member of the Photo-Secession, The Oakland Museum, 1974, p. 11 (there titled incorrectly The Soul of the Blasted Pine), illustrated
Weston J. Naef, The Collection of Alfred Stieglitz: Fifty Pioneers of Modern Photography, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1978, p. 282, illustrated
Alexander Lee Nyerges, In Praise of Nature: Ansel Adams and Photographers of the American West, The Dayton Art Institute, 199), p. 82, illustrated
Kathleen Pyne, Modernism and the Feminine Voice: O’Keeffe and the World of the Stieglitz Circle, Berkeley, 2007, pp. 95 and 112, illustrated
Teresa A. Carbone, ed., Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties, New York: Brooklyn Museum, 2011, p. 213, illustrated
Ann M. Wolfe, ed., Anne Brigman: A Visionary in Modern Photography, Reno: Nevada Museum of Art, 2018, pp. 5, 97, 258, and 273, illustrated
Kathleen Pyne, Anne Brigman: The Photographer of Enchantment, New Haven, 2020, pp. 1, 4, 59, and 153, illustrated
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