Show all records
Click image for high resolution zoom or multiple image views.

    Artist

  • Schiff, John, 1907-1976

    • Title

  • Katherine Dreier's home, interior : West Redding, undated

  • Physical Description

    1 photograph : black-and-white ; 7 x 9.7 inches / 17.8 x 24.6 cm., digital photograph

  • Summary

    The image shows a photograph of artist and collector Katherine Dreier's house in West Redding, Connecticut. There is a fireplace in the center of the image, along with a sofa, two chairs, two lamps and a china display cabinet. The verso of the photograph has "West Redding" written in pencil.

  • Depicted

    Dreier, Katherine S. (Katherine Sophie), 1877-1952

  • Subject

    Dwellings

  • Place

    West Redding (Conn.)

  • Genre

    Photographs

  • Part Of

    John (Hans) and Trude Schiff Collection, AR 25082

  • Accession Number

  • URL

Biographical/Historical Information

Katherine Sophie Dreier was an artist, lecturer, patron of the arts, and social reformer. Dreier studied art in the United States and in Europe. She was most influenced by modern art, particularly by her friend Marcel Duchamp. She was co-founder of the Society of Independent Artists and the Société Anonyme. Dreier was also an active suffragette. She was the head of the New York City's German-American Committee of the Woman Suffrage party in 1915. She co-founded the German House for Recreation of Women and Children, and was its president.

Related Works in the LBI Catalog

Depicted:

This will search the complete LBI Catalog, including non-digitized and digitized materials. The Catalog will list the complete LBI holdings pertaining to the person depicted, including all artworks, archival collections, photographs, books, and periodicals.

Artist:

This will search DigiBaeck, a subset of the LBI Catalog concentrating on all of its digitized materials that are available online. The search will list all of LBI's digitized materials pertaining to this artist/creator, including artworks (those described in the Griffinger Portal and more), archival collections, photographs, rare books, and periodicals.

Reproductions and Permissions

We welcome fair use of this content. Please credit the Leo Baeck Institute in your citation. For usage policies and to request higher resolution images, see Reproductions and Permissions.

Citation

Schiff, John: Katherine Dreier's home, interior : West Redding, undated, Leo Baeck Institute, F 076 AR 25082.