Harmony of Reflected Light: The Photographs of Arthur Wesley Dow
by James L. Enyeart (Museum of New Mexico Press, Santa Fe, N.M., June 2001).
Art lovers are familiar with Arthur Wesley Dow’s paintings, yet his endeavors as a prolific photographer have remained virtually unacknowledged—at least until recently. In 1999 Dow’s great-grandniece, Barbara D. Wright, invited James L. Enyeart, a photo-historian, to view nearly 200 of Dow’s photographs—works that lay to rest the presumption that Dow’s interest in photography only extended to the use of them as studies for his paintings. In this new title, Enyeart weaves 135 reproductions of Dow’s images with essays about the artist’s personal and professional life, and a clear picture of Dow’s contributions to early modernist photography develops as a result.
Art lovers are familiar with Arthur Wesley Dow’s paintings, yet his endeavors as a prolific photographer have remained virtually unacknowledged—at least until recently. In 1999 Dow’s great-grandniece, Barbara D. Wright, invited James L. Enyeart, a photo-historian, to view nearly 200 of Dow’s photographs—works that lay to rest the presumption that Dow’s interest in photography only extended to the use of them as studies for his paintings. In this new title, Enyeart weaves 135 reproductions of Dow’s images with essays about the artist’s personal and professional life, and a clear picture of Dow’s contributions to early modernist photography develops as a result.
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