Snow: Alice Boughton Photograph of Bonnie Snow

Name/Title

Snow: Alice Boughton Photograph of Bonnie Snow

Entry/Object ID

2023.104.064

Description

Signed Alice Boughton photograph of Bonnie Snow, mounted on double gray matte (13 x 10 3/8 in) with photographer's mark on matte, below photograph.One of 5 signed photographs of Snow by Boughton in the MSHHS collection. Alice Boughton (1866-1943) was born in Brooklyn and studied photography at Pratt School of Art and Design in New York during the 1880s, where she met Gertrude Käsebier. In 1890, she opened her own studio on East 23rd Street in New York, where she specialized in photographs of literary and theatrical personalities. Boughton traveled to Europe in 1901 and was introduced to Arthur Stieglitz the following year. She became part of Stieglitz’s Photo Secessionist Group and exhibited widely throughout first part of the 20th century. Boughton’s photographs are in most major US photography collections.

Collection

Bonnie Snow

Acquisition

Accession

2023.104

Acquisition Method

Found

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Photograph

Height

8 in

Width

5-7/8 in