Herbert G. French

Nationality

American

Lifetime

1872-1942

Biography

Herbert G. French American, 1872-1942 Herbert G. French, a prominent Cincinnati businessman and top executive at the Proctor & Gamble Company, was active as a pictorial photographer during the first decade of the 20th century and began exhibiting his work around 1900. During the first year of operation of the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession (1905-6), Alfred Stieglitz invited him to exhibit a series of his photographs illustrating portions of Tennyson's Idylls of the King. In 1906 French was instrumental in organizing Exhibition of Photographic Art at the Cincinnati Art Museum, and three years later Stieglitz reproduced five of French's images in Camera Work (July 1909). French (born in Covington, Kentucky) was a member of the Photo-Secession and exhibited his work nationally and internationally, but only until about 1910. His interest in the arts continued, however, and he bequeathed a sizable collection of Old Master and modern prints to the Cincinnati Art Museum. M.M.

Artworks

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Camera Work

A. Horsley Hinton

Alfred Stieglitz

Alice M. Boughton

Alvin Langdon Coburn

Anne W. Brigman

Arthur Allen Lewis

Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore

Baron Adolph de Meyer

C. Yarnall Abbott

Clarence H. White

David Octavius Hill

E.M. Bane

Edward Steichen

Ema Spencer

Eva Watson-Schutze

F. Benedict Herzog

Francis Bruguière

Frank Eugene

Frederick H. Evans

Frederick H. Pratt

George Davison

George Bernard Shaw

George H. Seeley

Gertrude Käsebier

Guido Rey

Hans Watzek

Harold Mortimer-Lamb

Harry Rubincam

Heinrich Kuehn

Herbert G. French

Hugo Henneberg

J. Craig Annan

John Francis Strauss

Joseph T. Keiley

Julia Margaret Cameron

Karl F. Struss

Marshall R. Kernochan

Oskar Hofmeister

Paul Strand

Paul B. Haviland

Prescott Adamson

René Le Bègue

Robert Adamson

Robert Demachy

Sarah C. Sears

Theodor Hofmeister

W.W. Renwick

William B. Dyer

William B. Post

William E. Wilmerding