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Photograph, Edith and Alvin Langdon Coburn, Grace and E. McKnight Kauffer
This is a Photograph. It was photographed by Alvin Langdon Coburn and subject: E. McKnight Kauffer and Alvin Langdon Coburn.
This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from Simon Rendall as part of Underground Modernist: E. McKnight Kauffer.
In the summer of 1916, the Kauffers rented a cottage in the same village as their friends the Coburns. Alvin Langdon Coburn was a celebrated portrait photographer, but he and Kauffer spent the season experimenting with abstraction. Coburn created a series of “vortographs,” including the one shown below. These abstract works sparked a great deal of controversy among Coburn’s fellow photographers.
It is credited Simon Rendall.
- Drawing, Portrait of Edward McKnight Kauffer
- graphite on cream paper.
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
- 1963-39-1170
Its dimensions are
H x W (approx.): 12.7 × 17.8 cm (5 × 7 in.)
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Underground Modernist: E. McKnight Kauffer.