Pictorialists in Boston
Pictorialists in Boston
December 29, 2014
Solitude (Portrait of F. Holland Day), 1901
Edward Steichen © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
To this end they made images that sought to represent truth and beauty; that were atmospheric; that had poetic, literary, or spiritual value; and that emphasized the role of the photographer as a craftsman. Figures such as Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Frederick H. Evans, Gertrude Käsebier, and Clarence H. White made spectacular images influenced by current art trends, including Impressionism, Symbolism, and the Arts and Crafts movement.
This exhibition celebrates the MFA’s recent acquisition of four major works related to the Boston leader of the movement, F. Holland Day. His The Seven Last Words (1898), purchased in 2013, is a centerpiece of the show and was recently called “an important touchstone of Modernist photography,” by The New York Times.
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Solitude (Portrait of F. Holland Day), 1901
Edward Steichen © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Seven Last Words, 1898
F. Holland Day © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Harmony, 1901
Gertrude Käsebier © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Lily Pond, 1916
Rudolph Eickemeyer © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston