
Kauffmann · butterfly · ca 1930

images that haunt us





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


This image, very graphic in its composition, shows the influence of Arthur Wesley Dow, a specialist in Japanese art and in particular in the art of Nōtan [濃淡], the harmony and interplay between light and dark elements (B&W)






