Anne W. Brigman, Manhattan Photogravure Company, and others
Dryads
1912
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- Artist: Anne W. Brigman
- Printer: Manhattan Photogravure Company
- Editor and Publisher: Alfred Stieglitz
Dryads
1912
Physical Qualities
Photogravure, Sheet: 192 x 279 mm. (7 9/16 x 11 in.)
Image: 160 x 205 mm. (6 5/16 x 8 1/16 in.)
Mount: 201 x 296 mm. (7 15/16 x 11 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Cary Ross
Object Number
2007.176.37
Anne Brigman’s characteristic subject of female nudes in landscape settings associates her most closely with Cézanne. Her photographs were included in three issues of Camera Work, including the October 1913 issue, when Dryads was published. Photographs such as this work were made high in the mountains where Brigman hiked and camped, setting up poses for the camera and serving as her own model.With its softfocus nudes functioning as allegorical figures, Dryads typifies Brigman’s painterly style. Alfred Stieglitz regarded Brigman as “a strangely
fascinating romantic spirit” and very possibly saw echoes of Cézanne’s bathers in her work.
(Cezanne and American Modernism, 2010)
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1939; Mr. Cary Ross, Baltimore
Cézanne and American Modernism
Stavitsky, Gail, ed., and Rothkopf, Katherine, ed. Cézanne and American Modernism. Montclair, NJ: Montclair Art Museum; Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, c2009.
