Midnight Lake George

Photography and Media

1904

Edward Steichen
American, born Luxembourg, 1879–1973

For more on Edward Steichen’s work in the Art Institute’s collection visit the website: Edward Steichen’s World War I Years.For more on the Alfred Stieglitz collection at the Art Institute, along with in-depth object information, please visit the website: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Edward Steichen
Title: Midnight Lake George
Place: United States (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 1904
Medium: Gum bichromate over platinum print
Inscriptions: Signed recto, on image, lower right, in graphite: Steichen; inscribed verso, on mount, upper left, upside down, in black pencil: #22
Dimensions: Image/paper: 39.5 × 48.7 cm (15 9/16 × 19 3/16 in.)
Credit Line: Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Reference Number: 1949.830
Copyright: © 2018 The Estate of Edward Steichen/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Travis, David. 1979. “Photography Rediscovered: American Photographs from 1900-1930.” Exh. cat. Whitney Museum of American Art. p. 39, fig. 139.
Barter, Judith A. 2009. “Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago.” Exh. cat. the Art Institute of Chicago. ch. 4, fig. 29, pl. 133.

Art Institute of Chicago, “Photographs from the Permanent Collection,” March 20–May 30, 1976. (Miles Barth)
New York, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, “Photography Rediscovered: American Photographs from 1900-1930,” September 19-November 25, 1979; traveled to Art Institute of Chicago, December 22, 1979-February 4, 1980 (Chicago only ?). (David Travis) (Note: titled “Moonlight, Lake George”)
Art Institute of Chicago, “Out of a Dark Room: Photographic Variations from the Permanent Collection,” April 15–September 10, 1995. (Sylvia Wolf)
Art Institute of Chicago, “A Measure of Nature: Landscape Photographs from the Permanent Collection,” May30-September 7, 1998.
New York, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, “Edward Steichen (1879–1973),” October 5, 2001–February 4, 2002.
Art Institute of Chicago, “From Darkroom to Digital: Photographic Variations,” November 19, 2005–February 26, 2006. (Elizabeth Siegel)
Art Institute of Chicago, “Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago,” November 7, 2009–January 31, 2010. (Judith Barter)
Art Institute of Chicago, “Sharp, Clear Pictures: Edward Steichen’s World War I and Condé Nast Years,” June 28–September 28, 2014. (Michal Raz-Russo)

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