Lotus, Mount Kisco, New York, 1915

Details

EDWARD STEICHEN (1879-1973)
Lotus, Mount Kisco, New York, 1915
gelatin silver print, printed 1920s
signed in pencil (in the image); annotated '1921' in pencil (on the overmat); inscribed 'For Stuart Chase on his 80th birthday from E.J. Steichen, Waterlily' in ink (on the reverse of the mount)
9 3/8 x 7½in. (23.8 x 19cm.)

Literature

Vanity Fair, July 1915; Steichen, A Life in Photography, Doubleday and Co., 1963, pl. 60; Steichen's Legacy: Photographs, 1895-1973, Alfred A. Knopf, 2000, pl. 306

Lot Essay

Stuart Chase (1888-1985) was a nationally prominent economist, author of 35 books, co-founder of Consumer Research the precursor of Consumers Union and an advisor to Franklin D. Roosevelt. Steichen and Chase were neighbors in Redding, Connecticut.

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