id: 157902 accession number: 1995.199.27.d share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1995.199.27.d updated: 2024-04-05 11:03:12.436000 Camera Work: Illustration, No. 22, 1909. Herbert G. French (American, 1872–1942). Photogravure; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Museum Appropriation 1995.199.27.d title: Camera Work: Illustration, No. 22 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1909 creation date earliest: 1909 creation date latest: 1909 current location: creditline: Museum Appropriation copyright: --- culture: America, 20th century technique: photogravure department: Photography collection: PH - Photogravure type: Bound Volume find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Herbert G. French (American, 1872–1942) - artist Herbert G. French American, 1872-1942 Herbert G. French, a prominent Cincinnati businessman and top executive at the Proctor & Gamble Company, was active as a pictorial photographer during the first decade of the 20th century and began exhibiting his work around 1900. During the first year of operation of the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession (1905-6), Alfred Stieglitz invited him to exhibit a series of his photographs illustrating portions of Tennyson's Idylls of the King. In 1906 French was instrumental in organizing Exhibition of Photographic Art at the Cincinnati Art Museum, and three years later Stieglitz reproduced five of French's images in Camera Work (July 1909). French (born in Covington, Kentucky) was a member of the Photo-Secession and exhibited his work nationally and internationally, but only until about 1910. His interest in the arts continued, however, and he bequeathed a sizable collection of Old Master and modern prints to the Cincinnati Art Museum. M.M. --- measurements: state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES