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Photographs from The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Sold to Benefit Acquisition Funds

George Krause

Fountainhead, Philadelphia

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Photographs from The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Sold to Benefit Acquisition Funds

George Krause

b. 1937

Fountainhead, Philadelphia


gelatin silver print, signed and dated ''79' in ink in the margin, mounted, signed and dated in pencil and with a The Cronin Gallery, Houston, label on the reverse

image: 6¼ by 4¼ in. (15.9 by 10.8 cm.)

Executed in 1970, printed no later than 1979.

Please note that the negative date is 1970 and not 1964 as previously catalogued.

Collection of Joan Morgenstern

Gifted by the above to the present owner

George Krause, George Krause-1 (Haverford, 1972), pl. 15

Anne W. Tucker, George Krause, A Retrospective (Houston, 1991), p. i

In 1991, Anne W. Tucker, founding curator of photography at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, organized George Krause, A Retrospective, a major mid-career retrospective for the photographer.  In the accompanying monograph, Tucker writes, "Krause manages to say something about the reality of being human. And by saying that something, we are able to feel a little more aware of our own humanity and the humanity of others, although we may not care to be so brutally enlightened. Krause does not try to soften the blow when the reality impacts. Rather he implodes it with a sort of fantastic wryness, catching images just as the elusive junction of what is real and what isn't." (p. 3)


This photograph comes originally from the collection of Joan Morgenstern, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Trustee and founding president of The MFAH Photo Forum. Morgenstern has donated more than 1,000 photographs to the museum, primarily focused on early and underrepresented midcareer artists.