Day, F. Holland
American (1864-1933)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Nubian Chief
PUBLISHED TITLE: An Ethopian Chief

1897
platinum print
20.7 x 18.4 cm.
Gift of 3M Company: ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley
GEH NEGS: 28794 25877
77:0211:0001

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Jussim, Estelle. --Slave to Beauty: The Eccentric Life and Controversial Career of F. Holland Day - Photographer, Publisher, Aesthete.-- Boston: David R. Godine, 1981. fig 10.//
Hirsch, Robert. --Seizing the Light: A History of Photography.-- New York: McGraw Hill, 1999. p. 197.//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 397.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
""Permanent" Survey Exhibition - 20th Century", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Second Floor Galleries, August 1979 - March 1984, 1979.//
"F. Holland Day and his Circle", US, CA, San Diego, Museum of Photographic Arts, October 14 - November 30, 1986.//
"Language of Light: Masterworks from the Collection", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, January 25, 1991 - March 22, 1992.//
"Language of Light: Masterworks from the Collection (reinstallation)", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, September 18, 1993 - June 5, 1994.//
"Language of Light: Masterworks from the George Eastman House Collection", Japan, Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, November 18, 1995 - January ??, 1996.//

INSCRIPTION: verso-(handwritten in pencil) "...(illeg.) Mathilde Weil" "Nubian Chief" "F. H. Day"

NOTES: Cataloged 5/84, DZ, updated 8/86, updated 11/90, MMC. Alternate title, date and proper subject identification from --Slave to Beauty--. See 86:0531:0001, for photogravure print (from --Camera Notes--) of image.

SUBJECTS:
portrait, ident / Tanneyhill, Alfred
dress, ethnic