BIB_ID
291847
Accession number
MA 5133.18
Creator
Genthe, Arnold, 1869-1942.
Display Date
Thursday [ca. 1915].
Credit line
Purchased in honor of Francis S. Mason on the occasion of his tenth anniversary at the Morgan Library, 1985.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 17.7 cm
Notes
Arnold Genthe moved from San Francisco to New York in 1911, and he first photgraphed Isadora Duncan in 1915.
Part of a collection of correspondence to and from Isadora Duncan and a printed program for a 1916 dress rehearsal. Items are cataloged individually in 21 records (MA 5133.1-21); see main record for more information.
Written on stationery printed "Arnold Genthe / Studio, 1 West 46th Street / (Thorley Bldg., Fifth Ave & 46th St.)." No salutation. Signed Arnold Genthe.
Part of a collection of correspondence to and from Isadora Duncan and a printed program for a 1916 dress rehearsal. Items are cataloged individually in 21 records (MA 5133.1-21); see main record for more information.
Written on stationery printed "Arnold Genthe / Studio, 1 West 46th Street / (Thorley Bldg., Fifth Ave & 46th St.)." No salutation. Signed Arnold Genthe.
Provenance
Purchased in honor of Francis S. Mason on the occasion of his tenth anniversary at the Morgan Library in 1985.
Summary
Begging Duncan to visit his studio "even if [she] feel[s] troubled and worried and not at all cheerfully disposed to [her] friends," because Genthe would like to show her "what he is trying to do with the camera."
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