The Blue Sky – Dana Steichen

The Blue Sky – Dana Steichen by Edward Steichen

Medium

palladium print

Dimensions

image: 24.3 × 19.2 cm (9 9/16 × 7 9/16 in.) sheet: 25 × 20 cm (9 13/16 × 7 7/8 in.)

Classification

Photograph

Department

CPH

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Gift of Howard Greenberg, in Honor of the 25th Anniversary of Photography at the National Gallery of Art

Accession Number

2015.32.1

About the Artist

Edward Steichen · 18791973

Edward Steichen (1879–1973) was a Luxembourgish-American photographer, painter, and museum curator who was one of the most influential figures in the history of photography. Born Eduard Jean Steichen in Bivange, Luxembourg, he emigrated with his family to the United States as a child and grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Steichen's early career was defined by Pictorialism — the movement to establi...

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