Aline Meyer Liebman studied photography with Clarence White and maintained a darkroom for many years. Her training as a photographer however, was never overshadowed by her experience as a painter and this equality of consideration, rare for the time, was realized in her collecting and patronage in the arts. In views of the family's home at 907 Fifth Avenue from 1926, built by some of the most notable architects and designers of the period (Ely Jacques Kahn, Armand-Albert Rateau, Rose Adler, Pierre Legrain and others) photographs by Stieglitz are seen hanging with paintings by Gauguin, John Marin and Joseph Stella, reflecting her unabashed acceptance of photographic genius in the realm of all the visual arts (op. cit. pls. 22-25; see also: New York, 1930, Architecture and Urbanism Between the Two World Wars, p. 463, for a view of the study designed by Kahn).

This and the following three lots are a continuation of Christie's offerings from a family whose prominent role in supporting the arts, particularly Stieglitz and his circle, is now firmly established in the history of New York art patronage.

Three of Aline Meyer Liebman's photographs of the Canadian Rockies were included in the Museum of Modern Art exhibition, Pictorialism in Transition, February 16 - March 19, 1944.