Artist: Peter Henry Emerson (1856 - 1936)
Nationality: British
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Media: Photography
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Biography:
Peter Henry Emerson was born in Cuba and lived there until his family moved to England during his teenage years. He became a physician and scientist, but eventually began photographing as a hobby at the age of twenty-six. He preferred rural subjects displayed in a simplistic manner. In 1889, his book Naturalistic Photography argued that pictures should imitate nature rather than alter it. Emerson was an involved speaker and writer about this issue and became a leading figure in the Photo-Secessionist movement that was founded in 1902 by Alfred Stieglitz.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Peter Henry Emerson, The Last Gate, 1895
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Gathering Water Lilies
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Peter Henry Emerson, Gunner Working up to Fowl, Plate Nineteen of Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads, 1886
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: Peter Henry Emerson Title: Gathering Waterlilies Date: 1886 Medium: platinum print Dimensions: H.7-7/8 x
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Peter Van Valkenburgh, Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1938
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Henry Wolf, Portrait of Professor Emerson, 1897
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Henry Wolf, Portrait of Dr. Emerson, 1895
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Peter Henry Emerson - Poling the Marsh Hay 1886 platinum print The Royal Photographic Society English
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Henry Emerson Tuttle, Cock Grouse, 19th - 20th century
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Henry Emerson Tuttle, Head of Sharp-shinned Hawk, 19th - 20th century
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Peter Henry Emerson - Rowing Home the Schoof-Stuff 1886 platinum print Cleveland Museum of Art British
Museum of Fine Arts -
Peter Henry Emerson, English, 1856-1936 A Ruined Water Mill about 1886 Photograph, platinum print Image/Sheet:
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Nathan Oliveira, Emerson Site I, 1979
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Nathan Oliveira, Emerson Site II, 1979
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Charles Christian Nahl, Mary Ellis Emerson as a Child, 1858
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Peter Van Valkenburgh, Henry David Thoreau, 1938
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Casper Emerson, Help Them Keep Your War Savings Pledge - World War I Poster, circa 1917 - 1918
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Peter Paul Rubens - The Reconciliation of King Henry III and Henry of Navarre 1628 oil on panel Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester Flemish
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Arthur Henry Thomas Millier, View of St. Peter"s from a Roman Garden, 1922
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Peter Milton, Pl.II-5 from the Portfolio The Jolly Corner - Text by Henry James, 1971
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Peter Milton, Pl.II-4 from the Portfolio The Jolly Corner - Text by Henry James, 1971
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Peter Milton, Pl.II-3 from the Portfolio The Jolly Corner - Text by Henry James, 1971
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Peter Milton, Pl.II-1 from the Portfolio The Jolly Corner - Text by Henry James, 1971
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Peter Milton, Pl.I-7 from the Portfolio The Jolly Corner - Text by Henry James, 1971
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Peter Milton, Pl.I-6 from the Portfolio The Jolly Corner - Text by Henry James, 1971
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Peter Milton, Pl.I-5 from the Portfolio The Jolly Corner - Text by Henry James, 1971
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Peter Milton, Pl.I-4 from the Portfolio The Jolly Corner - Text by Henry James, 1971
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Peter Milton, Pl.I-3 from the Portfolio The Jolly Corner - Text by Henry James, 1971
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Peter Milton, Pl.I-2 from the Portfolio The Jolly Corner - Text by Henry James, 1971
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Peter Milton, Pl.I-1 from the Portfolio The Jolly Corner - Text by Henry James, 1971
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Peter Milton, Pl.II-6 from the Portfolio The Jolly Corner - Text by Henry James, 1971
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Peter Milton, Pl.III-7 from the Portfolio The Jolly Corner - Text by Henry James, 1971
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Peter Milton, Pl.III-6 from the Portfolio The Jolly Corner - Text by Henry James, 1971
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Peter Milton, Pl.III-5 from the Portfolio The Jolly Corner - Text by Henry James, 1971
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Peter Milton, Pl.III-4 from the Portfolio The Jolly Corner - Text by Henry James, 1971
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Peter Milton, Pl.III-3 from the Portfolio The Jolly Corner - Text by Henry James, 1971
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Peter Milton, Pl.III-2 from the Portfolio The Jolly Corner - Text by Henry James, 1971
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Peter Milton, Pl.III-1 from the Portfolio The Jolly Corner - Text by Henry James, 1971
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Peter Milton, Pl.II-7 from the Portfolio The Jolly Corner - Text by Henry James, 1971
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Peter Milton, Pl.II-2 from the Portfolio The Jolly Corner - Text by Henry James, 1971

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (9)
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Thomas Erben Gallery: Sarah Emerson: Do the Collapse
Her colorful, yet muted paintings combine a variety of visual references ranging from dead bucks, barren trees, to pop inspired abstract elements. The images occupy the entire surface, which is rendered flatly, not unlike camouflage patterning. ...
Minneapolis Institute of Arts: Photogravure: Photographs in Ink
Photographers who have used this process include P. H. Emerson, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward S. Curtis, Paul Strand, Lee Friedlander, and Bernice Ficek-Swenson. This exhibition features about 75 photogravures, ...
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard: A Curious and Ingenious Art: Reflections on Daguerreotypes at Harvard
Daguerreotypy, invented in 1839 by the Frenchman Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, was a method of capturing an image projected by a camera obscura onto silver-coated copper plates. In this process, the plates were sensitized with iodine vapor, expose...
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art: American Modern, 1925-1940: Design For A New Age
Tracing the rise of the American decorative aesthetic through the work of 50 celebrated masters of design, the exhibition features objects that have come to symbolize life in America in the 1920s and 30s. The exhibition is organized by The Metropo...
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford: Ed Ruscha: Paintings, Drawings and Books 1961-2001
When I began painting, all my paintings were of words which were guttural utterances like Smash, Boss, Eat.  Those words were like flowers in a vase; I just happened to paint words like someone else paints flowers.  Ed Ruscha Ed Ruscha has t...
Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery: Winners of the Smithsonian American Art Museums New Media-New Century Award Announced
We are thrilled to award this prize to three outstanding artists, said Elizabeth Broun, the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Margaret and Terry Stent Director. Remaining on the cutting edge where art meets technology has always been o...
Appleton Museum of Art: American Impressions: An Arcadian Vision, Paintings from the Akron Art Museum
They often employed European impressionistic techniques to convey pastoral beauty, rather than embracing the bustle and pollution of their industrializing nation. They painted tranquil landscapes and dreamy portraits of women, aiming to fulfill t...
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: Marsden Hartley: First Retrospective in over 20 Years
Widely acknowledged as the greatest of the early American modernists, Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) belonged to a circle of artists promoted by photographer and gallery owner Alfred Stieglitz that included Georgia O’Keeffe, John Marin, Arthur Dove, ...
Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Exhibition Reveals Lee Krasner’s Crucial Contributions to Modern Art
Organized by Independent Curators International, this revealing exhibition demonstrates Krasner’s lifelong refusal to settle on a single style with which to express her artistic and personal concerns, and examines her position as one of the most...

Further Artwork and Information:

Peter Henry Emerson (1856 - 1936) Biography, Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Peter Henry Emerson (Getty Museum)
A History of Photography, by Robert Leggat: EMERSON, Dr. Peter Henry
Peter Henry Emerson s quotes @ PhotoQuotes.com - Quotations from the World of Photograpy
Peter Henry Emerson - Photographic Essays
George Eastman House Peter Henry Emerson Series
Peter Henry Emerson
Vintage Photographs - PETER HENRY EMERSON - From a Collection of Fine Photographs by well-known Artists, including ...
Vintage Photographs - PETER HENRY EMERSON - From a Collection of Fine Photographs by well-known Artists, including ...
Peter Henry Emerson Online

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