Charles Henry Caffin papers

Käsebier, Gertrude, 1852-1934

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American pictorialist photographer Gertrude Käsebier, with the support and admiration of Alfred Stieglitz, became a founding member of the Photo-Secession movement in 1902. Gertrude Käsebier was born in 1852 in Des Moines, Iowa, daughter of John and Muncy Stanton. The family was of established American lineage: Käsebier's maternal great-grandfather was the brother of Daniel Boone. When she was still very young, Käsebier moved to Colorado ...

Steichen, Edward, 1879-1973

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Edward Jean Steichen, born Eduard Jean Steichen (March 27, 1879 – March 25, 1973), was a Luxembourgish American photographer, painter, and curator. His were the photographs that most frequently appeared in Alfred Stieglitz's groundbreaking magazine Camera Work during its publication from 1903 to 1917. Steichen laid claim to his photos of gowns for the magazine Art et Décoration in 1911, being the first modern fashion photographs ever published. Steichen used his talents in the military in ...

Greet, Ben, Sir, 1857-1936

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Philip Ben Greet (1857-1936) was an English actor and theater manager. From the description of Ben Greet papers, 1845-1936. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122570903 From the guide to the Ben Greet papers, 1845-1936, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...

Kennedy, Charles Rann, 1871-1950

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Epithet: dramatist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001185.0x00018c Kennedy was born on Feb. 14, 1871 in Derby, England; worked as an office boy and clerk from ages 13-16; began writing and lecturing; married actress Edith Wynne Matthison in 1898; wrote short stories, articles and poems, while also acting and serving as a press agent and theatrical business manager; made his first appearance on the stage in 1897...

Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952

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Frances Benjamin Johnston (January 15, 1864 – May 16, 1952) was an early American photographer and photojournalist whose career lasted for almost half a century. She is most known for her portraits, images of southern architecture, and various photographic series featuring African Americans and Native Americans at the turn of the 20th century. In the 1880s, Johnston studied art in Paris and then returned home to Washington, DC, where she learned photography. She quickly established a national...

Corn, Wanda M.

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Wanda M. Corn, a scholar of late 19th- and early 20th-century painting and photography, joined the faculty of Stanford's Department of Art and Art History in 1980. She is the author of THE GREAT AMERICAN THING: MODERN ART AND NATIONAL IDENTITY, 1915-1935 (1999) and several exhibit catalogs including GRANT WOOD, THE REGIONALIST VISION (1983) and THE ART OF ANDREW WYETH (1973). From the description of Wanda M. Corn papers, 1970-2006. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754864148 ...

Genthe, Arnold, 1869-1942

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German-born American photographer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to [Isadora Duncan], [1915 or later]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 501196416 From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to [Isadora Duncan], Tuesday [ca. 1915]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 501196335 Photographer and pioneer in dance photography. From the description of Correspondence and writings, 1928-1942. (New York Public Library). Worl...

Layton, Donna Caffin

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Andreyev, Leonid, 1871-1919

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Russian novelist. From the description of Leonid Andreyev miscellaneous papers, 1902-1922. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754872372 Leonid Nikolaevich Andreev (1871-1919) was a Russian short-story writer and playwright From the guide to the Leonid Andreev papers, 1890-1976, (GB 206 Leeds University Library) From the guide to the Igo voiny, by Leonid Andreev, 1916, (GB 206 Leeds University Library) Andreev, Russian writer, lived in exile in Finla...

Caffin, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1854-1918

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American author and art critic; b. in England; moved to Chicago in 1892 and to New York, 1897, where he became art critic of Harper's Weekly, New York Sun, and other publications. From the description of Charles Caffin review of Marsden Hartley, 1917 Jan. 29. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 308679374 Charles Henry Caffin (1854-1918) was an art critic from New York, N.Y. Charles Caffin was an early supporter of the Photo-Secess...

Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946

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Alfred Stieglitz was an American photographer, founder of the Photo-Secession Group, gallery owner, and editor and publisher of photography magazines, most notably, Camera Work. Frank Hermann was an American painter, who spent most of his career in Germany, where he associated with several avant-garde art groups. Childhood friends, Stieglitz and Herrmann were schoolmates, spent time together when Stieglitz was in Europe, and visited each other in the United States when Herrmann returned in 1919....