Barn Interior, Probably New England

1920

Medium

Platinum print

Dimensions

20.5 × 15.6 cm

Status

In Museum Collection

Collect24 Art ID

C24-807958

Doris Ulmann attended the Ethical Culture School in New York before beginning the study of psychology at Columbia University in 1907. She also took classes in photography with Clarence H. White (1871-1925) in the art department at Columbia Teachers College (see [87.XM.89.156](https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/62506/doris-ulmann-clarence-h-white-and-two-students-american-1915/)). White, a one-time colleague of Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) and a founding member of the Photo-Secession, taught photography in the company of the artists Arthur Wesley Dow and Max Weber. Dow, a printmaker who had earlier been an assistant curator of Japanese prints at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, promoted the Eastern principles of crating in two dimensions, accenting the abstract, graphic qualities of any composition. That sensibility is evident in *Barn Interior*. White founded two schools of his own: one at a summer home on Georgetown Island, Maine, the other in New York. It is believed that Ulmann participated in both. She probably met Dr. Charles Jaeger (1875-1942), an amateur photographer who later became her husband, through White's classes; the two of them were active members of Whi…