Category: 1920s

Etudes de Fleurs ca. 1930

Laure Albin-Guillot :: Étude de fleurs [with stem] [magnolias (?)], ca. 1930. Vintage Fresson print. | src Seagrave Gallery
Laure Albin-Guillot :: Étude de fleurs [with stem] [magnolias (?)], ca. 1930. Vintage Fresson print. | src Seagrave Gallery
Laure Albin-Guillot :: Étude de Fleurs [water lilies (?)], ca. 1930. Vintage Fresson print. | src Seagrave Gallery
Laure Albin-Guillot :: Étude de Fleurs [water lilies (?)], ca. 1930. Vintage Fresson print. | src Seagrave Gallery

Watkins by Frances Bode

Margaret Watkins photographed by Frances M. Bode, 1921 | src Photo España
Margaret Watkins by Frances Bode, Clarence H. White School of Photography, 1921 | src The Guardian

This portrait by Frances Bode was probably taken in the summer of 1921 when Watkins was a teacher at the Clarence H. White School of Photography in New York. It is one of the few portraits of Margaret Watkins

Portrait · Verna Skelton · 1923

Margaret Watkins ~ Portrait Study (Verna Skelton), 1923. Joseph Mulholland Collection (Glasgow) | src The Guardian

This portrait of Verna Skelton is emblematic of Watkins’ portraits. We see the immediate reference to the Dutch painters, and her extraordinary ability to illuminate her subjects.

A fresh angle: The revolutionary gaze of Margaret Watkins – in pictures: Canadian photographer Margaret Watkins rejected traditional gender roles to become a pioneering modernist photographer with Renaissance flair (The Guardian)

Margaret Watkins ~ Portrait Study (Verna Skelton), 1923 | src ODLP ~ l’œil de la photographie

Nu féminin assis de dos, 1929

Laure Albin-Guillot :: Nu féminin assis de dos. Photographie originale, [1929]. | src Aguttes