Milk Bottle
Artist
Margaret Watkins
CultureScottish
Date1919
MediumGaslight print
DimensionsOverall, Image: 8 3/8 × 6 3/8 in. (21.3 × 16.2 cm)
Overall: 13 15/16 × 10 7/8 in. (35.4 × 27.6 cm)
Overall, Mat: 24 × 20 in. (61 × 50.8 cm)
Overall: 13 15/16 × 10 7/8 in. (35.4 × 27.6 cm)
Overall, Mat: 24 × 20 in. (61 × 50.8 cm)
InscribedSigned and dated recto of mount; title and process written in ink on verso of mount.
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number84.77
Not on view
DescriptionThis is a gaslight print photograph.Label TextMargaret Watkins Canadian (b. Hamilton, Ontario, 1884-1969) Milk Bottle, 1919 Silver chloride print Horace W. Goldsmith Fund 84.77 At the age of 30, Margaret Watkins began to study photography under Clarence H. White. She became so proficient that in 1916 she began teaching at White's school of photography in New York City. Paul Outerbridge, Jr., also included in this exhibition, was among her many students. In the 1920s, she became one of the first women to be employed by a major advertising firm. Among her clients was Macy's department store. At the same time, her work was exhibited widely including London, Paris, San Francisco, Japan, and Java. In 1923, she had her first solo exhibition at New York's Art Center under the auspices of the Pictorial Photographers of America. A review in the December 1923 Zontian magazine, published by and for professional women, stated: "Her choices of subject is as wide as her exhibition opportunities have been far, from a milk bottle to a landscape. Miss Watkins uses the simplest things to distinguished compositional advantage." Edited By: GLY Edited Date: 11/10/2003Exhibition History"A History of Photography: 15 Years at the Chrysler Museum," The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA; September 11, 1993-March 6, 1994. "Photographs from the Chrysler Museum," The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA, February 26-April 23, 1989 "Silver Images: The Photography Collection at 25," Alice R. and Sol B. Frank Photo Galleries, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va., November 5, 2003 - August 2004.
