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Collection Spotlight: Models in Gowns by Madeleine Vionnet, Edward Steichen

Artist: Edward Steichen (American, born Luxembourg, 1879‒1973)Title: Models in Gowns by Madeleine Vionnet, for VogueDate: 1930Medium: Gelaton silver printDimensions: 10 x 8 inCredit line: Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, gift of Richard and Jackie Hollander in memory of Ellyn Lee Hollander, 2019.29.27 Models in Gowns by Madeleine Vionnet is an example of Edward Steichen’s modern […]

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Block Museum Receives Gift of Photographs by Edward Steichen

Northwestern University’s Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art is one of three institutions receiving an extraordinary gift of vintage photographs by Edward Steichen from collectors Richard and Jackie Hollander. The Hollanders have donated 49 gelatin silver prints by Steichen, universally regarded as one of the most important photographers of the 20th century, to the Block. […]

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