Karl Struss
Capri

Capri

© 1983 Amon Carter Museum of American Art

Capri
Capri
ArtistAmerican, 1886–1981
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Capri
Date1909
MediumPlatinum print
DimensionsImage: 9 1/16 × 7 in. (23 × 17.8 cm)
Sheet: 9 3/16 × 7 1/8 in. (23.4 × 18.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Manfred Heiting, the Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2004.685
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description


Karl Struss was a member of the Photo-Secession—a dynamic group of fine-art photographers that sought to assert the artistic soul of the medium at the turn of the century under the leadership of photographer, gallerist, and publisher Alfred Stieglitz. The Photo-Secessionists built their aesthetics off traditional artistic media and pursued technical mastery of photographic processes. Photographing the island Capri, off the Sorrento Peninsula in Italy and home to Roman ruins, Struss alludes to the landscape’s classical past and depicts a subject in line with the artistic ambitions of the Pictorialist movement.



ProvenanceThe artist; [Stephen White Gallery, Los Angeles]; purchased by Manfred Heiting, April 23, 1975; given to MFAH, 2004.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Signed in pencil, lower left corner of image: Karl Struss 1909
Inscribed in pencil, verso, top half: c Karl Struss // not to be reproduced // Cliffs - Sorrento // Karl Struss
Inscribed in pencil, verso, lower left corner: 5-104
Inscribed in pencil, verso, lower right corner: 12 [circled]
Signed in pencil, lower left corner of image: Karl Struss 1909

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