Alfred Stieglitz portrait of Katharine Nash Rhoades, 1909
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: FSA A.01 12.03.01
name: label: Creator
content: Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946
label: Names
content: Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919
label: Names
content: Rhoades, Katharine N., 1885-1965
label: Collection Creator
content: Freer, Charles Lang, 1856-1919
creator: label: Creator
content: Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946
setName: label: See more items in
content: Charles Lang Freer Papers
label: See more items in
content: Charles Lang Freer Papers / Series 12: Photographs / 12.3: Portraits of Others
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Katharine Nash Rhoades (1885-1965) graduated from Brearley School in New York in 1904 and subsequently studied paining for several years before making her first trip to Paris. On her return to New York, Rhoades participated in the famous Armoury show of 1913. Rhoades met Alfred Stieglitz and was introduced to his circle. Also in 1915, Rhoades met Charles Freer and soon became his closest assistant.
label: Biographical / Historical
content: Alfred Stieglitz was born in New Jersey in 1864, but lived and studied in Germany in his teens and 20s, where he became recognized as a talented photographer and writer about photography. Stieglitz returned to New York in 1894, where he soon became president of the prestigious New York Camera Club. The club's newsletter Camera Notes, became a major publication advocating photography as an art form. In 1902, Stieglitz led a group of like-minded photographers to form the Photo-Secession. Stieglitz also founded the gallery 291, which begame a center for avant-garde culture in New York.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Item (photographic print, Platinum print)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1915
container: label: Container
content: Box 274
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: FSA.A.01, Item FSA A.01 12.03.01
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Portraits
label: Type
content: Photographs
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Stored in one box.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Portraits -- Women
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: One platinum print, showing the American artist Katharine Nash Rhoades (1885-1965) likely taken during her exhibition at the New York gallery 291. The portrait was likely presented to Freer by Rhoades who worked as his personal assistant in his final years.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Portrait of Katharine Rhoades