Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Eickemeyer, Rudolf, Jr., 1862-1932
2. Eickemeyer, Rudolf, Jr., 1862-1932.
3. Hudson River Museum.

Description

1. 112 p. : ill.; 28 cm.

Summary

1. Rudolf Eickemeyer, Jr. began his work as a photographer in 1884, for his father's engineering firm. His interest piqued, he rapidly advanced to portraiture and landscape photography. Eickemeyer spent twenty years as a commercial success in his role as fashionable Fifth Avenue portraitist. Working with Eastman Kodak, he demystified photography, attracting thousands of amateurs. Eickemeyer excelled at both artistic photography and professional photography, as this exhibition attests. A lifelong resident of Yonkers, New York, Eickemeyer played a key role in the creation of the Yonkers Museum of Science and Art, the institutional forerunner of the Hudson River Museum, an entirely appropriate venue for this comprehensive exhibition and catalog.

Alternative title

1. Rudolf Eickemeyer, Jr. and the art of the camera, 1885-1930
2. Pictorialist pioneer

Subject

1. Eickemeyer, Rudolf, Jr., 1862-1932 > Exhibitions
2. Photography, Artistic > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

1. Exhibition catalogs

Contents

1. Introduction / Rick Beard -- Foreword : An artist for the Gilded Age / Estelle Jussim -- In my studio : Rudolf Eickemeyer, Jr. and the art of the camera, 1885-1930 / Mary Panzer -- Rudolf Eickemeyer, Jr. and Yonkers in the Gilded Age -- Amateurs and art -- The fusion of beauty and utility -- An artist and his model : Rudolf Eickemeyer, Jr. photographs the new American woman -- The inward landscape.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Note

1. "Catalogue for the exhibition, Pictorialist pioneer: the photography of Rudolf Eickemeyer, Jr."
2. Exhibition held at the Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, N.Y., Dec. 3, 1986-Feb. 22, 1987.

Bibliography (note)

1. Bibliography: p. 92-96.

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain