A member of the Photo-Secession, Struss was a student of Clarence White and a friend of Alfred Stieglitz. He made dozens of photographs of the city at dusk, delighting in the way things merged and were illuminated by strings of fine lights. This photograph, with its gleaming automobiles and electric lights, shows a popular Manhattan summertime restaurant housed in a Colonial-era home on Manhattan's Upper West Side.
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Inscription: Signed and dated in pencil on print, recto LR: "Karl Struss 1915"
[The Photo Album, Los Angeles]
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Recent Acquisitions, Department of Prints and Photographs," December 6, 1977–February 19, 1978.
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Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati. "Counterparts: Form and Emotion in Photographs," May 20–July 2, 1982.
Dallas Museum of Art. "Counterparts: Form and Emotion in Photographs," August 4–September 13, 1982.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. "Counterparts: Form and Emotion in Photographs," November 19, 1982–January 9, 1983.
Corcoran Gallery of Art. "Counterparts: Form and Emotion in Photographs," February 22–April 18, 1983.
Amon Carter Museum of American Art. "New York to Hollywood: Photographs by Karl Struss," March 18, 1995–June 25, 1995.
Equitable Gallery. "New York to Hollywood: Photographs by Karl Struss," July 17, 1995–September 30, 1995.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Pictorialism in New York, 1900-1915," February 10–May 31, 1998.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Johnson Gallery, Selections from the Collection 29," May 21–September 23, 2001.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. ""Our Future Is In The Air": Photographs from the 1910s," November 10, 2010–April 10, 2011.
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McCandless, Barbara, and Bonnie Yochelson. New York to Hollywood: The Photography of Karl Struss. Fort Worth: Amon Carter Museum of American Art, 1995. p. 86.
Peter Hujar (American, Trenton, New Jersey 1934–1987 New York)
1966
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