As every season seems best to us in its turn, so the coming in of spring is like the creation of Cosmos out of Chaos and the realization of the Golden Age

As every season seems best to us in its turn, so the coming in of spring is like the creation of Cosmos out of Chaos and the realization of the Golden Age

Photograph

Edward Steichen

Maker
American, b. Luxembourg, 1879–1973

As every season seems best to us in its turn, so the coming in of spring is like the creation of Cosmos out of Chaos and the realization of the Golden Age

ca. 1934
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 5/8 × 4 5/8 in. (16.9 × 11.7 cm)
Paper: 7 3/16 × 4 15/16 in. (18.2 × 12.6 cm)
Matted: 14 7/16 × 11 15/16 × 1/16 in. (36.7 × 30.4 × 0.2 cm)
Frame: 15 1/2 × 13 in. (39.4 × 33 cm)
Bequest of Edward Steichen, 1981
1979.2460.0061
Inscriptions inscribed on negative printed in image recto, TL: WALDON [sic] [star] BOOK;
inscribed on negative printed in image recto, TR: 1517-181

verso (pencil): 1 + - 7
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