Albin Polasek – Antique Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures Albin Polasek in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Albin Polasek
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This Bain News Service glass negative is a portrait of Albin Polasek, the Czech-born sculptor who became one of the best-known artists in Chicago. Polasek began as a woodcarver in his homeland before emigrating to the United States, and he later taught sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago. Bain News Service, a New York agency that supplied newspapers with pictures from about 1900 into the 1930s, made portraits like this one for press use, so the image reflects how the public encountered working artists in that era. The record gives no exact date, so the sitting itself is best understood as part of that wider newspaper practice.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch five loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,192 × 7,224 px · prints to 17 × 24 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-23170 |
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