Paul Strand
Bottle, Book, and Orange, Twin Lakes, Connecticut
1915
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Paul Strand
Bottle, Book, and Orange, Twin Lakes, Connecticut
1915
Physical Qualities
Silver-platinum print, Sheet: 268 x 295 mm. (10 9/16 x 11 5/8 in.)
Image: 261 x 289 mm. (10 1/4 x 11 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase with exchange funds from the Edward Joseph Gallagher III Memorial Collection; and partial gift of George H. Dalsheimer, Baltimore
Object Number
1988.577
Bottle, Book, and Orange is a significant work from Strand’s series created in Twin Lakes, Connecticut. It depicts a carefully arranged still life, placed on the floor and photographed from above. Although Strand did not specifically attribute this series to Cézanne’s influence, he explored the abstract methods of Picasso and others at this time. Strand’s still-life compositions represent the zenith of abstraction in American photography, and the point at which his work most clearly approximates Cézanne’s example as he allows pure form to dominate, calling attention to the object’s own visual qualities.
Jan Howard, BMA, "The Collector's Eye: Photographs from the Museum's Dalsheimer Collection, " 17 September - 19 November, 1989.
Jan Howard, BMA, "Abstract Photographs," 22 March - 25 June 1995.
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Paul Strand: Circa 1916," 10 March - 31 May 1998, plus travel to San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 19 June - 15 September 1998
American Federation of Arts, "Debating American Modernism: Stieglitz, Duchamp, and the New York Avant-Gardem 1915-1930," Georgia O'Keefe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico January 24 - April 20, 2003; Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, May 10 - August 3, 2003; Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, Illinois, August 29 - November 30, 2003; p.31, ill.
Rena Hoisington, BMA, "Looking through the Lens: Photography 1900-1960," 16 March - 8 June 2008.
Gail Stavitsky, Montclair Art Museum and Katherine Rothkopf, The Baltimore Museum of Art (co-organizers), "Cézanne and American Modernism"; Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ, September 13, 2009-January 3, 2010; The Baltimore Museum of Art, February 14, 2010-May 23, 2010; Phoenix Art Museum, June 26, 2010-September 26, 2010.
Jan Howard, BMA, "Abstract Photographs," 22 March - 25 June 1995.
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Paul Strand: Circa 1916," 10 March - 31 May 1998, plus travel to San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 19 June - 15 September 1998
American Federation of Arts, "Debating American Modernism: Stieglitz, Duchamp, and the New York Avant-Gardem 1915-1930," Georgia O'Keefe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico January 24 - April 20, 2003; Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, May 10 - August 3, 2003; Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, Illinois, August 29 - November 30, 2003; p.31, ill.
Rena Hoisington, BMA, "Looking through the Lens: Photography 1900-1960," 16 March - 8 June 2008.
Gail Stavitsky, Montclair Art Museum and Katherine Rothkopf, The Baltimore Museum of Art (co-organizers), "Cézanne and American Modernism"; Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ, September 13, 2009-January 3, 2010; The Baltimore Museum of Art, February 14, 2010-May 23, 2010; Phoenix Art Museum, June 26, 2010-September 26, 2010.
BMA Today, Spring 2008, ill. p. 4.
Maria Morris Hambourg, "Paul Strand: Circa 1916" (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1998) p. 33 and no. 22, repr..
Stavitsky, Gail, ed., and Rothkopf, Katherine, ed. Cézanne and American Modernism. Montclair, NJ: Montclair Art Museum; Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, c2009.
Inscribed: On mount, at lower right, in graphite: "-Paul Strand-1916-"
Markings: None
