Beauty is Truth--Truth Beauty
Catalogue
- Year
- 1899
- Dimensions
- image: 18.7 x 17.2 cm (7 3/8 x 6 3/4 in.) mat: 38.1 x 27.9 cm (15 x 11 in.)
- Collection
- National Gallery of Art
- Artist
- F. Holland Day
Artist
Printmaking
F. Holland Day was an American photographer and publisher active from the 1880s through the early 1900s. A pioneer of pictorialist photography, he employed soft focus, hand-applied pigments, and theatrical composition to elevate the medium toward fine art status. Day founded the publishing house Copeland and Day in Boston and championed photography as a gallery-worthy practice during a period when it remained largely dismissed by the art establishment. His archival contributions and advocacy for photography's aesthetic legitimacy shaped the medium's institutional recognition in the twentieth century.
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- F. Holland Day
- Year
- 1899
- Dimensions
- image: 18.7 x 17.2 cm (7 3/8 x 6 3/4 in.) mat: 38.1 x 27.9 cm (15 x 11 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1899-283798
Source
- Collection
- National Gallery of Art
- Source
- nga
- Reference
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- Status
- verified