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The Seven Words

Artist F. Holland Day (American, 1864 - 1933)

Date1898

DimensionsEach platinum print: 5 1/4 × 18 in. (13.3 × 45.7 cm)
Frame: 8 1/2 × 34 1/2 in. (21.6 × 87.6 cm)

Mediumplatinum prints, black card [mount], lacquered wood [original frame]

ClassificationPhotographs

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey, by exchange

Object number

2024.37

Not on View

Description7 platinum prints, each accompanied by the original black card mount and original black lacquered frame

Published ReferencesSelected Bibliography (specific work): Caffin, Charles, “Philadelphia Photographic Salon,” Harper’s Weekly 42, no. 2185 (November 5, 1898): 1087. “The Philadelphia Photographic Salon,” Wilson’s Photographic Magazine, December 1898 35:504: 529-531. Steichen, Edward J. , “The American School,” Camera Notes 6, no. 1 (July 1902): 23. Solis-Cohen, Lita, “F. Holland Day’s ‘The Seven Words’ sets auction record for photographic art,” The Baltimore Sun, December 21, 1986, pg. 161. Conheim, Maryanne and Jack Severson, “Found Art: Photo Museum left some gold in the dust,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 22, 1980, page 1-2. McCauley, Elizabeth Anne ed., Verna Posever Curtis, “Clarence H. White in the Light of F. Holland Day,” in Clarence H. White and His World (Yale University Press: Princeton University Art Museum, 2017), pgs. 146-147 and fig. 135. Selected Bibliography (referencing other copies): Kristen Schwain, “F. Holland Day’s Seven Last Words and the Religious Roots of American Modernism,” American Art 19:1 (Spring 2005): 32-59. Patricia J. Fanning, Through an Uncommon Lens: The Life and Photography of F. Holland Day (University of Massachusetts Press: Amherst, MA, 2008). Kristen Schwain, Signs of Grace: Religion and American Art in the Gilded Age (Cornell University Press: Ithaca and London, 2008): 71-103. Shawn Michelle Smith, At the Edge of Sight: Photography and the Unseen, (Duke University Press: Durham, NC and London, 2013): 39-71.Exhibition HistoryPhiladelphia, Philadelphia Photographic Salon, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1898. Paris, L’Hotel de Sully,Corpus Christi: Representation of Christ in Photography 1852-2002, 2003. Jerusalem, The Israel Museum; Hamburg, Deichtorhallen, Revelation: Representations of Christ in Photography, 2003-2004. New York, Silverstein Photography, Jesus Christ Super Star, 2005. New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Photography and the Self: The Legacy of F. Holland Day, December, 2006 - March, 2007. London, Tate Modern, Performing for the Camera, February – June 2016.