Leaping dancer by Delight Weston

Irma Delight Weston :: Dance Liftoff, 1921. Bromide print. | src Photoseed — **Irma Delight Weston ::** Dance Liftoff, 1921. Bromide print. | src Photoseed

Delight Weston :: Airborne dancer, 1921. Bromide print. — **Irma Delight Weston ::** Airborne dancer, 1921. Bromide print. | src Photoseed

These pictorial studies of a female dancer leaping are believed to have been taken at the former Ruth Doing Camp for Rhythmics in New York state’s Adirondack mountains. In the 1920’s and 30’s, photographer Delight Weston lived with camp founders Ruth Doing (1881-1966) and Gail Gardner (1878-1949) in New York City, along with other women artists, in a building at 139 W. 56th St. near Carnegie Hall.

Established in 1916, the summer camp was first located on the shores of Upper Chateaugay lake near Lyon Mountain until 1925, when it moved to Upper St. Regis Lake in Paul Smiths, New York. Renamed the Gardner-Doing Camp after this time, it was coeducational: besides regular summer camp activities, it specialized in the “rhythmic” style of dancing popularized by famed dancer Isadora Duncan, whom Ruth Doing was a former student of. Doing’s life partner, Michigan native Gail Gardner, had earlier made a name for herself as an accomplished and world-traveling opera singer. [quoted from Photoseed]

Irma Delight Weston :: Leaping dancer, 1921. Bromide print. | src Photoseed — **Irma Delight Weston ::** Leaping dancer, 1921. Bromide print. | src Photoseed

Delight Weston :: Leaping dancer, 1921. Bromide print. — **Irma Delight Weston ::** Leaping dancer, 1921. Bromide print. | src Photoseed

Delight Weston :: Outstretched arms. Rhythmic dance study, 1921. Bromide print. | src Photoseed — **Delight Weston ::** Outstretched arms. Rhythmic dance study, 1921. Bromide print. | src Photoseed

Two dancers by Delight Weston

Delight Weston :: Rhythmic Dancing Study, 1921. Bromide print. | src Photoseed

Irma Delight Weston :: Rhythmic Dancing Study, 1921. Bromide print. | src Photoseed — **Irma Delight Weston ::** Rhythmic Dancing Study, 1921. Bromide print. | src Photoseed

These pictorial studies of two female dancers in motion are believed to have been taken at the former Ruth Doing Camp for Rhythmics in New York state’s Adirondack mountains. In the 1920’s and 30’s, photographer Delight Weston lived with camp founders Ruth Doing (1881-1966) and Gail Gardner (1878-1949) in New York City, along with other women artists, in a building at 139 W. 56th St. near Carnegie Hall.

Seeley’s tree silhouettes, ca. 1917

George H. Seeley :: Silhouettes of trees before a lake, ca. 1917. Platinum print. Lee Gallery. | src Luminous Lint LL/24559

George H. Seeley :: Three tree silhouettes, ca. 1917. Platinum print. Courtesy Lee Gallery. | src Luminous Lint LL/24558 — **George H. Seeley ::** Three tree silhouettes, ca. 1917. Platinum print. Courtesy Lee Gallery. | src Luminous Lint LL/24558

Carlotta Corpron’s blossoms

Carlotta Corpron (1901-1988) :: [Tree blossoms]; ca. 1930s-1940s; Gelatin silver print. | Amon Carter Museum of American Art — **Carlotta Corpron** (1901-1988) :: [Tree blossoms]; ca. 1930s-1940s; Gelatin silver print. | Amon Carter Museum of American Art

Carlotta Corpron (1901-1988); [Lotus blossoms]; ca. 1930-1940's; Gelatin silver print; Amon Carter Museum of American Art; Fort Worth, Texas; P1988.16.91 — **Carlotta Corpron** (1901-1988) :: [Lotus blossoms]; ca. 1930-1940s; Gelatin silver print. | Amon Carter Museum of American Art

Carlotta M. Corpron (1901-1988); [Lotus blossom]; ca. 1940s; Gelatin silver print; Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Bequest of the artist; P1988.16.54 — **Carlotta Corpron** (1901-1988) :: [Lotus blossom]; ca. 1940s; Gelatin silver print. | Amon Carter Museum of American Art

Carlotta Corpron (1901-1988); [Magnolia blossoms]; ca. 1930-1940; Gelatin silver print; Amon Carter Museum of American Art; Fort Worth, Texas; P1988.16.52 — **Carlotta Corpron** (1901-1988) :: [Magnolia blossoms]; ca. 1930-1940; Gelatin silver print. | Amon Carter Museum of American Art

Carlotta Corpron (1901-1988); [Magnolia blossoms]; ca. 1930-1940; Gelatin silver print; Amon Carter Museum of American Art; Fort Worth, Texas; P1988.16.53 — **Carlotta Corpron** (1901-1988) :: [Magnolia blossom]; ca. 1930-1940; Gelatin silver print. | Amon Carter Museum of American Art

Carlotta Corpron (1901-1988); [Tree blossoms]; ca. 1930's-1940's; Gelatin silver print; Amon Carter Museum of American Art; Fort Worth, Texas; P1988.16.142 — **Carlotta Corpron** (1901-1988) :: [Tree blossoms]; ca. 1940s; Gelatin silver print. | Amon Carter Museum of American Art

Photographer Carlotta Corpron had a brief but important career as an artist and a decades-long impact as a professor at Texas State College for Women (now Texas Woman’s University). In the 1930s and ‘40s she experimented with light, influenced by the ideals of the Bauhaus and the Institute of Design as brought to Denton, Texas, by László Moholy-Nagy and György Kepes. Her early photographs investigated how light transforms natural objects, but in later projects she took light itself as her subject, capturing its reflection and refraction in abstract compositions that sometimes involved cropping or combining multiple negatives. Corpron bequeathed her archive to the museum, which holds 138 prints, over 800 negatives, and the Carlotta Corpron Papers. [quoted from Amon Carter Museum]