Untitled
photographic
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Untitled is a photographic by Gerda Quist, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This is a photo of two round metal medallions side by side. The left one shows a man’s face in profile, wearing a suit and looking serious. The right one has a scene of a person riding a winged horse, with one arm raised, and a wheel with an X symbol below. The man’s medallion has the words "Rector Universalis" and "Ruanda" carved around the edge. The horse scene is labeled "A.D. MCMXXXI," which means 1931. Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum to see this up close.
A black-and-white photograph is mounted on a green card, part of a collection bequeathed by William Kineton Parkes in 1938. Parkes, a novelist, art historian, and librarian known for his work on sculpture, solicited responses from sculptors in the 1920s through questionnaires, and this image was among those submitted to him. The photograph is one of many in the collection held in the Archive of Art and Design.
Read the full account in the museum source.
This Danish artist snapped photos in the 1950s with a Rolleiflex, the square-crop camera that fit in her coat pocket.
See the richer artist page
