About the Artwork
Walt Whitman with Kitty and Harold Johnston
1879
William Kurtz
1834-1904
German
Unknown
Albumen print
Sheet: 5 7/8 × 4 inches (14.9 × 10.2 cm) Mount: 6 1/2 × 4 1/4 inches (16.5 × 10.8 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Feinberg
F1983.272
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Markings
Inscribed, titled, dated in pen and black ink, on top of mount, verso: Kitty & Harold and | Walt Whitman 1879 In pen and blue ink, following "and": JOHNSTON In brown ink, on mount, lower right: MADISON SQUARE In black ink, on center of mount, verso: PARIS | NEW YORK | VIENNA | PHILADELPHIA | 12 FIRST-CLASS | MEDALS | AMERICAN INSTITUTE | DE PHOTO- GRAPHIE | W. KURTZ | GOOD TASTE | NEW YORK | MADISON | SQUARE In brown ink on mount verso, lower left: W. KURTZ
Sticker on mount verso, upper left, with printing in black: Miss Bertha Johnston | 514 Eighth Avenue | Brooklyn New York
Provenance
Bertha Johnston (Brooklyn, New York, USA). 1984-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Saunders, Henry S. Whitman Portraits. Toronto, 1922, no. 67 (ill.).
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William Kurtz, Walt Whitman with Kitty and Harold Johnston, 1879, albumen print. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Feinberg, F1983.272.
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