Before he was a world class photographer, Edward Steichen was an artist, don’t the two go hand in hand? A wealthy New Yorker asked Steichen to paint some panels for the foyer of a townhome he was building. The New Yorker came on hard times and could not pay Steichen, so he rolled up his paintings and put them away. 110 years later they were discovered and purchased by the Dallas Museum of Art, where they were carefully restored. They are lovely Art Nouveau treasures. A favorite Steichen quote of mine, “photography is a major force in explaining man to man”.
This is my offering for the purple Saturday rainbow.
Nice shot. The story reminds me of a notebook/ledger they found of Vincent Van Gogh sketches. A friend who was an inn keeper had give Van Gogh the book to use for his drawing. Van Gogh filled it and had it returned to the but whoever received it thought it was just a ledger and stuck on a shelf where it sat for almost 100 years. Amazing stories!
