Eva Watson-Schütze

Photographer

By Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art

Subjects: Art
Imprint: Distribution Partners
Paperback : 9780615258324, 60 pages, July 2009

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Table of contents

Foreword
Howard Greenberg
Eva Watson-Schütze: Photographer
Tom Wolf
Footnotes
Plates
Acknowledgements

An overview of the career of Eva Watson-Schütze (1867–1935), one the foremost American women photographers of the early twentieth century.

Description

Eva Watson-Schütze's career as a photographer brought her into contact with many of those who helped shape twentieth-century American culture, from Thomas Eakins and Alfred Stieglitz to the artists and intellectuals of the Byrdcliffe Arts and Crafts colony in Woodstock, New York. Along with portraits of her esteemed friends and acquaintance, this catalog includes important examples of her photographs from all phases of her career, as well as an essay by curator Tom Wolf, Professor of Art History at Bard College, and an introduction by esteemed gallery owner and art collector Howard Greenberg.