Mary Stevens Ayres
Collection of Exhibition Photos by a Female Pictorialist, 1920s
Silver and platinum prints (30)
Various sizes; from 9 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches to 10 x 13 1/2 inches
Each with Ayres' embossed credit recto, stamped credit and manuscript title verso. Most with accompanying typed salon record. With related ephemera.
Each with Ayres' embossed credit recto, stamped credit and manuscript title verso. Most with accompanying typed salon record. With related ephemera.
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A moody, assured collection of pictorialist photographs taken by a Brooklyn based salon photographer named Mary Stevens Ayres. The collection mainly consists of bromide enlargements depicting scenes around Quebec, including...
A moody, assured collection of pictorialist photographs taken by a Brooklyn based salon photographer named Mary Stevens Ayres. The collection mainly consists of bromide enlargements depicting scenes around Quebec, including the village of Tadoussac. Most of the photographs have titles which appear both on the versos of the prints and on accompanying typed salon records.
Quebec was Ayres' subject of choice and she exhibited her pictures of the area from the 1910s-30s. A 1935 article, published in the Montreal Gazette about a local exhibition of hers, speaks fondly of her depiction of the lands "windmills, watermills, boats and fishermen, dog carts. and ox cars, fields and markets, churches, wayside shrines, delicately nourished gardens and tumbledown thatched barns, roads, trees, and skies." The article goes on to say that " her art came to her almost by accident, when she went to St. Pierre Miquelon with a tiny box camera and was seized with the idea of tracing the French influence in Canada." and that "since the St.Pierre Miquelon days, she has studied photography wholeheartedly and now she uses all sorts of intricate cameras and does her own developing and printing."
Quebec was Ayres' subject of choice and she exhibited her pictures of the area from the 1910s-30s. A 1935 article, published in the Montreal Gazette about a local exhibition of hers, speaks fondly of her depiction of the lands "windmills, watermills, boats and fishermen, dog carts. and ox cars, fields and markets, churches, wayside shrines, delicately nourished gardens and tumbledown thatched barns, roads, trees, and skies." The article goes on to say that " her art came to her almost by accident, when she went to St. Pierre Miquelon with a tiny box camera and was seized with the idea of tracing the French influence in Canada." and that "since the St.Pierre Miquelon days, she has studied photography wholeheartedly and now she uses all sorts of intricate cameras and does her own developing and printing."