Silhouette

Silhouette

This child study by Charles Hellmuth is a multiple gum-bichromate print done on laid paper. The exhibition print shows a young girl with hair bow silhouetted against an interior window. The photograph, which may date to as early as around 1920 based on other examples held by this archive was exhibited in the 1923 Pittsburgh Salon as well as the International Salon hosted by the Pictorial Photographers of America in New York City in May, 1923.

 

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Genre: Children Children Interiors Supports
Title
Silhouette
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Dimensions

Image Dimensions24.5 x 19.4 cm laid paper

Support Dimensionsdetail: overmat: 50.8 x 40.6 cm | 35.5 x 27.9 cm

Print Notes

Recto: inscribed in graphite on mount: Hellmuth N.Y.

Verso: on original gray mount: white pasted labels:

Pictorial Photographers of America
May 1923
International Salon
Art Center New York City

Member
PPA
Pictorial Photographers of America

Chas. A. Hellmuth
338 W. 22nd St.
New York

 Title: #2  “Silhouette ”

in graphite on label: (Multiple Gum Print)

stamp: Salon of Pittsburgh Photography -1923-

Exhibition markings:

-white label: 2630
-large letter A in blue graphite which has been circled
– 116– (red graphite)
– 279– (graphite)

 

Provenance

Purchased for this archive in July, 2012 from seller in Hilton, N.Y. who purchased it earlier from the Rochester, N.Y. estate of Joseph Foote Hellmuth, the artist’s son. (1928-2014)

Published

The American Annual of Photography 1926, full-page halftone: Silhouette (Multiple Gum Print), Chas. A. Hellmuth., p. 23

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