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Winter Reflection

Maker Hiromu Kira (American, 1898 - 1991)

ClassificationsPHOTOGRAPHS

Dateca. 1925

Mediumsilver print

Dimensions11 11/16 x 9 1/4 in. (29.7 x 23.5 cm.)

InscribedInscribed on recto of mount in graphite:Portalnd Salon 1925/ Frederick Salon 1925/ Winter Reflections'. Hiromu Kira. 514 Main St., Seattle, Wh. CEF 1122 Signed on recto of mount at lower right: Hiromu Kira Label, small red: 8

Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens

Status

Not on view

Label TextPhotographer Hiromu Kira (1898-1991) was born in Hawaii, educated in Japan, and in 1916 settled in the Pacific Northwest. He was a founding member of the Seattle Camera Club and part of the artistic community of Los Angeles’s Little Tokyo in the 1920s and 30s.

Winter Reflection was made in Seattle, where the artist pursued a Pictorialist aesthetic, and before he developed his modernist approach after moving to Los Angeles in 1926.

Object number86.30.2