Bette Davis Eyes and Other Natural Phenomena: Photographs at No Reserve

Edward Steichen

Lotus, Mount Kisco, New York

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Edward Steichen

1879 - 1973

Lotus, Mount Kisco, New York

oversized gelatin silver print, signed in ink on the image, titled and annotated 'V.F. July 1923' by Grace Mayer in pencil on the reverse, 1915, printed circa 1960 by Rolf Petersen

image: 16 ¼ by 13 ¼ in. (41.3 by 33.7 cm.)

Gift of the photographer to Grace M. Mayer

Bequest of Grace M. Mayer to The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1997

Sotheby's New York, Photographs from The Museum of Modern Art, 25 April 2001, Sale 7632, Lot 129

Vanity Fair, July 1915

A Life in Photography: Edward Steichen (New York, 1963), pl. 60

Joanna Steichen, ed., Steichen's Legacy: Photographs, 1895-1973 (New York, 2000) pl. 306

This print may have been made in advance of the exhibition Steichen the Photographer, presented at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1961; its dimensions are comparable to the print exhibited. Steichen served as Director of the Department of Photography at MoMA from 1947 to 1962. Grace Mayer, from whom this photograph originally came, assisted Steichen during his last few years at the museum and was subsequently promoted to curator after his retirement.