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In Arcadia,
1899
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<p>Little is known about Herbert Hess apart from his friendship with F. Holland Day and his propensity for staged arcadian views of young boys. Critic Sadakichi Hartmann aptly called him an "American von Gloeden," in reference to the German aristocrat who settled in Taormina and in the 1890s marketed more overtly homoerotic tableaux of Italian boys. White showed this print in Newark in 1900 and kept it, but he must have found Hess’s treatment too conspicuously staged in comparison with his own more obscured and less <br>tactilely appealing depictions of innocent flesh.</p>
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1899
Created by Herbert Arthur Hess, the artist. Acquired by Clarence H. White Sr., between 1899 and July 7, 1925; by descent to Clarence H. White Jr., on or after July 8, 1925 [1]; by descent to Clarence H. White Jr.’s widow, Ruth Royer White, 1978 [2]; bequest, to Princeton University Art Museum, 1983 [3].
Notes:
[1]. Possibly on the occasion of Clarence H. White Sr.’s death, as part of the Clarence H. White Collection.
[2]. On the occasion of Clarence H. White Jr.’s death.
[3]. Carried out by Ruth Royer White on behalf of Clarence H. White Jr.
