Edward SteichenAmerican, 1879–1973The Model and the Mask
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Minneapolis, United States
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- The museum
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- Accession number
- 64.34.15.8
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- Minneapolis Institute of Art
- Image: Minneapolis Institute of Art — © Minneapolis Institute of Art
Meanwhile, in the life of Edward Steichen
The whole life1904
First experiments with colour photography
He begins experimenting with colour photography and becomes one of the earliest in the United States to use the Autochrome Lumière process.
1 July 1904
Daughter born: Mary Calderone
1905
The Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession
With Stieglitz he creates the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession in what had been Steichen’s portrait studio; the gallery later becomes known as 291 after its address and presents some of the first American exhibitions of Rodin, Matisse, Cézanne, Picasso and Brâncuși. Constantly crossing between Europe and the US by steamship, he becomes, in the art historian William A. Ewing’s words, one of the earliest “jet setters,” bringing European art to America.
1908
His sister marries Carl Sandburg
Lilian, whom the poet Carl Sandburg met at the Milwaukee Social Democratic Party office in 1907, becomes his wife; the marriage helps forge a life-long friendship and partnership between Steichen and Sandburg.
