Photographs
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Kurtz, Charles M. (Charles McMeen), 1855-1909
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content: Charles M. Kurtz papers
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1898-1990
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.kurtchar, Series 10
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Glass plate negatives have been scanned.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: The photographs in this series may be divided into two types: personal photographs of and by Charles M. Kurtz and photographs that record paintings in his collection or exhibitions that he administered. After his death, Kurtz was eulogized as being an early pioneer in the new art form of photography. His interest surfaces in letters written particularly in the 1890s. His associate, Charles Ward Rhodes, asks Kurtz's advice on things such as equipment, and indicates that Kurtz was considered knowledgeable on these subjects. In correspondence, Kurtz himself offers to send shipboard companions photographs he has taken. Very few photographs are identified as being taken by Kurtz. Many other photographs are most probably by him but not identified as such.

Photographs of Kurtz, his family, friends, professional colleagues and artists, include Wm. Bóuguereau, Halsey C. Ives, Chas. H. Miller, Henry W. Ranger, F.K.M. Rehn, Chas. W. Rhodes, [Harry W.?] Watrous, and Charles Morris Young. Some identifications and other annotations are included with the photographs. Glass plate negatives include portrait photographs of Julia and Charles Kurtz.