Historical Portrait
Wolf, Mrs., portrait photograph
Archive record
1 negative : nitrate ; 5 x 7 in.
About this photograph
Arnold Genthe photographed Mrs. Wolf in 1919. The portrait was made on a 5 x 7 inch nitrate negative, a standard format for studio work of the period.
Genthe maintained a studio in New York during this time, having relocated from San Francisco in 1911. He worked in the soft-focus pictorialist style, an aesthetic approach that favored atmospheric effects over sharp detail.
The negative now forms part of a collection of roughly 20,000 items held by the Library of Congress. This collection, acquired from Genthe's unclaimed studio after his death in 1942, consists primarily of studio portraits alongside other photographic work from his four-decade career.
The archive catalogues no further information about the sitter beyond her surname and married title. The negative preserves one formal sitting, its subject otherwise unrecorded.
Compiled from the catalogue record and reference notes on the formats and events involved. The archive record above is the primary source.
About the format
Rights & Attribution
Explore
More from the 1910s
![[Unidentified Civil War veteran and unidentified World War I soldier], 1914 (Library of Congress)](/api/img/unidentified-civil-war-veteran-and-unidentified-world-war-i-soldier-1914-0EAgH23AdmO4s80a6WxL.jpg)
