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EDWARD STEICHEN (1879–1973)
E. Gordon Craig, 1913
photogravure on tissue, backed by paper
credited, titled and dated in pencil (paper backing, recto); credited, titled and dated on affixed Witkin Gallery label (mat, verso)
image: 8 x 6 3/8 in. (20.3 x 16.2 cm.)
sheet: 11 7/8 x 8 1/2 in. (30 x 21.5 cm.)
backing: 11 3/4 x 8 1/4 in. (29.8 x 20.9 cm.)

Provenance
Gifted by June Sidman, 1981.
Literature
Alfred Stieglitz, Camera Work, New York, no. 42/43, April/July 1913, pl. IX.
Joanna Steichen, Steichen’s Legacy, Alfred A Knopf, New York, 2000, pl. 136.
Todd Brandow and William A. Ewing, Edward Steichen: Lives in Photography, FEP Editions LLC, Minneapolis, 2008, fig. 57, p. 78.

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