Bolney Backwater

Photography and Media

c. 1908

James Craig Annan
Scottish, 1864–1946

When Stieglitz visited the 1904 International Art Exhibition in Dresden, he linked the work by Annan on view with that of David Octavius Hill, which was half a century older: “In the British exhibit but two deserve mention—Hill, the painter-photographer of fifty years ago, and J. Craig Annan. Their pictures will always hold their own in the very best of company—sane, honest, temperamental.”

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Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: James Craig Annan
Title: Bolney Backwater
Place: Scotland (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1908–1909
Medium: Photogravure
Inscriptions: Signed recto, on paper, lower right, below image, in graphite: J Craig Annan; Inscribed recto, on paper, lower left, below image, in graphite: Bolney Backwater
Dimensions: Image: 21.6 × 28.8 cm (8 9/16 × 11 3/8 in.); Paper: 26.8 × 40.6 cm (10 9/16 × 16 in.)
Credit Line: Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Reference Number: 1949.669

Shimbun, Asahi. 1997. “Alfred Stieglitz and his Contemporaries.” Exh. cat. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. p. 95. pl. 85.

Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, “Alfred Stieglitz and his Contemporaries,” September 9–November 3, 1997.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Alfred Stieglitz and the 19th Century,” October 31, 2015-March 27, 2016.

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