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Portrait of Adelia Antoinette Field Johnston (OC 1856; first female professor at Oberlin College)
Portrait of Adelia Antoinette Field Johnston (OC 1856; first female professor at Oberlin College)

Portrait of Adelia Antoinette Field Johnston (OC 1856; first female professor at Oberlin College)

Artist/Maker (American, 1852–1934)
Dateca. 1910
MediumPlatinum print
DimensionsOverall: 6 1/8 × 7 1/8 in. (15.6 × 18.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Oberlin College Archives
Object number1980.85
Status
On view
More Information
Portraitist and art photographer, Kasebier was the most successful of a number of women photographers active at the turn of the 19th century. She exhibited frequently at Alfred Stieglitz's Photo-Secession gallery in New York. The platinum printing process produced a matte surface and rich, velvety tones ideally suited to the soft-focus, handcrafted sensibilities of Pictorialist "art" photography.

Adelia Field Johnston was one of Oberlin College's first women faculty members.
Exhibition History
New Acquisitions 1981
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (May 19, 1981 - August 23, 1981 )
Photography in the Collection: A Sesquicentennial Salute
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (December 13, 1988 - February 12, 1989 )
Facing the Camera: Selected Portrait Photographs from the Collection
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (January 21, 1995 - March 9, 1995 )
Framed and Shot: Photographs from the Allen Memorial Art Museum
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (March 1, 2000 - May 30, 2000 )
Femme 'n isms, Part II: Flashpoints in Photography
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (January 2, 2024 - January 18, 2025 )
Collections
  • Modern & Contemporary
  • On View
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