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Description: 'ON THE HILLSIDE (A STUDY OF VALUES)'

measurements note
9 1/8 by 11 3/8 in. (23.1 by 29 cm.)

brown-toned photogravure on laid paper, numerical notations in an unidentified hand in pencil on the reverse, matted, circa 1910

PROVENANCE

Lunn Gallery, Washington, D. C.

Acquired by the Gilman Paper Company from the above, 1981

LITERATURE

Other prints of this image:

Pierre Apraxine and Lee Marks, Photographs from the Collection of the Gilman Paper Company (White Oak Press, 1985), pl. 134

Maria Morris Hambourg, Pierre Apraxine, et al., The Waking Dream: Photography's First Century, Selections from the Gilman Paper Company Collection (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993, in conjunction with the exhibition), p. 182

Peter Weiermair, Heinrich Kühn, Photographer (1866-1944) (Innsbruck, 1978), pl. 28

Elizabeth Pollock, Heinrich Kühn (Cologne, 1981), p. 44

Weston Naef, The Collection of Alfred Stieglitz (New York, 1978), no. 408

NOTE

The Austrian pictorialist Heinrich Kühn was one of the foremost European members of the Photo-Secession and a master of the gum-bichromate process. Kühn's later work focused primarily on his family and his immediate surroundings. On the Hillside is an intimate portrait of Kühn's youngest child, his daughter Lotte. The title A Study of Values was given to the photograph by Kühn when he sent a photogravure of the print to the International Exhibition of Pictorial Photography at the Albright Art Gallery in Buffalo in 1910.