Rupert S. Lovejoy
Pictorialist Photograph Titled "Between the Lines - Dawn", c. 1919
Gum bichromate print
10 1/2 x 13 inches; mount larger
With Lovejoy's signature mount recto and various exhibition stamps and notations verso.
With Lovejoy's signature mount recto and various exhibition stamps and notations verso.
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A haunting, tenebrous image of silhouetted doughboys at daybreak, taken by the Pictorialist photographer Dr. Rupert S. Lovejoy. On the verso of the mount, there is a manuscript notation stating...
A haunting, tenebrous image of silhouetted doughboys at daybreak, taken by the Pictorialist photographer Dr. Rupert S. Lovejoy. On the verso of the mount, there is a manuscript notation stating the photo placed first prize in a Kansas City photographic exhibition, and there is a also an exhibition stamp for a national photo salon in Buffalo, NY. A review of a 1920 salon in Indianapolis which also featured this picture wrote that it, “brings back with throbbing intensity the misty horrors of those battle days.”
A copy of this photograph is held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Rupert S. Lovejoy was a Portland, Maine, based artist and dentist. Before committing himself fully to painting, he was a pictorialist photographer and active member of the Portland Camera Club in the late 1910s and 20s. His work was widely-admired and he was awarded numerous prizes at photographic salons across the country.
A copy of this photograph is held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Rupert S. Lovejoy was a Portland, Maine, based artist and dentist. Before committing himself fully to painting, he was a pictorialist photographer and active member of the Portland Camera Club in the late 1910s and 20s. His work was widely-admired and he was awarded numerous prizes at photographic salons across the country.