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James Craig Annan (Scottish, 1864–1946)
A Venetian Requiem, 1894
Photogravure; 11.7 x 9 cm (image); 13.2 x 9.2 cm (paper)
Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949.663
Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949.663
In 1896 J. Craig Annan published a luxurious portfolio of prints, Venice and Lombardy: A Series of Original Photogravures, that collected views from his travels to Italy. Six of the works by Annan in the Art Institute’s Stieglitz Collection, among them A Venetian Requiem, were included. In these works Annan expertly combined photographic detail with the smears and smudges of the ink used in the photogravure printing process.
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