Paul Strand
Abstraction, Bowls, Twin Lakes, Connecticut
1915
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Paul Strand
Abstraction, Bowls, Twin Lakes, Connecticut
1915
Physical Qualities
Gelatin silver print, Sheet: 352 x 277 mm. (13 7/8 x 10 7/8 in.)
Image: 334 x 246 mm. (13 1/8 x 9 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase with exchange funds from the Edward Joseph Gallagher III Memorial Collection; and partial gift of George H. Dalsheimer, Baltimore
Object Number
1988.575
Working in Twin Lakes, Connecticut, in the summer of 1916, Paul Strand carried out an important series of photographic experiments with still lifes of everyday objects including
Abstraction, Bowls as well as Bottle, Book, and Orange. These photographs enabled him to study the formal structure, space, and organization of works by Paul Cezanne, Pablo Picasso, and George Braque by contemplating, in Strand’s own words, “how you build a picture, what a picture consists of, how shapes are related to each other, how spaces are filled, how the whole thing must have a kind of unity.”
Paul Katz, North Bennington, VT, 1981; from private collection, NYC; from estate of Paul Strand.
Looking through the Lens: Photography 1900-1960
Shared Intelligence: American Painting and the Photograph
Paul Strand a Retrospective Monograph: The Years 1915-1946, Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1971, ill. pl. 18.
Smart Museum of Art: 2002 - 2003 Bulltetin. Chicago: The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago Museum of Art, 2004, fig. 1 ill.
Inscribed: MOUNT FACE LL (black ballpoint pen) 'Paul Strand'; VERSO: UL (graphite) '1'; C 'Cykora/8/103'.
