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Adolf Fassbender 1884-1980
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Description
- Adolf Fassbender
- 'the ice serpent'
chloride print, matted, circa 1933, accompanied by the original mount, signed, titled, and hand-ruled by the photographer in blue pencil, signed, titled, numbered 'No. I,' and annotated 'chloride' and inscribed with six exhibition venues by him in ink and with the Museum's collection stamp, label, and accession number in an unidentified hand in pencil, on the reverse
Provenance
Gift of the photographer, 1933
Exhibited
London, The Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, 1933
Chicago, The Century of Progress International Photographic Salon, 1933
Pittsburgh, The Pittsburgh Salon of Photographic Art, 1933
Philadelphia, The International Salon of Photography, 1933
Los Angeles, All American Photographic Salon, 1933
Boston, The American Annual of Photography, 1933
Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, Imagination to Image, April - September 1999; and traveling thereafter to The Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, September - December 2000; and The Montclair, New Jersey, Art Museum, January - April 2001
Literature
Christian A. Peterson, The Pictorial Artistry of Adolf Fassbender (Nutley: Fassbender Foundation, 1994), pl. 4