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Bernard Shea Horne was the son of Joseph Horne, who built a legendary department store in Pittsburgh. The younger Horne retired from the family business when he was in his thirties and moved to northern Virginia to pursue his interests in golf and photography. In 1916 he enrolled at the Clarence H. White School of Photography, in New York, and became friends with one of its teachers, the avant-garde painter Max Weber. Horne produced numerous Weber-inspired design exercises, which he compiled into albums of twenty Platinum prints each. The four prints in the Thomas Walther Collection belonged to an album that he gave to Weber.
In 1917 Horne was elected president of the White School’s alumni association, a post he retained until 1925. In 1918 instructor Paul L. Anderson left the school, and Horne took his place as teacher of the technique class, a job he held until 1926. That a middle-aged man of independent means commuted to the school several days a week from Princeton, New Jersey, where he then lived with his two sons, suggests Horne’s devotion to White and his Pictorialist aims. During these years, Horne played a major role in the White School’s activities. In 1920 he was given a one-person show in the exhibition room of the school’s new building, a show that the alumni bulletin described as “interesting and varied in subject and technique, rich in bromoils, strong in design.” Supportive of the practical applications of artistic photography, in 1920 White joined his school to other institutions, including the American Institute of Graphic Arts and the Art Directors Club, to form The Art Center in New York. In 1926 Horne was given a one-person show at The Art Center, which marked the end of his active association with the school.
—Bonnie Yochelson
September 19, 1867 |
Born
At location: Bernard Shea Horne
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Pittsburgh |
1890 |
Graduates from Princeton University
At location: Bernard Shea Horne
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Princeton |
Early 1900s |
Subscribes to Camera Work and Photographic Journal of America
Affiliated: Bernard Shea Horne
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New York |
1916–17 |
Studies at the Clarence White School of Modern Photography
At location: Bernard Shea Horne
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New York |
March 1917 |
Fourth Annual Pittsburgh Salon of Photography
Participant: Bernard Shea Horne
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Pittsburgh |
June 1917 |
Becomes a member of Pictorial Photographers of America
At location: Bernard Shea Horne
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New York |
September 1917 |
Exhibition of Pictorial Photography by American Artists, organized by the Pictorial Photographers of America
Participant: Bernard Shea Horne
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Minneapolis |
1917 |
Serves as acting president of the White School Alumni Association
At location: Bernard Shea Horne
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New York |
March 1918 |
Fifth Annual Pittsburgh Salon of Photography
Participant: Bernard Shea Horne
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Pittsburgh |
1918–26 |
Teaches at the Clarence White School of Photography
At location: Bernard Shea Horne
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New York |
March 1919 |
Sixth Annual Pittsburgh Salon of Photography
Participant: Bernard Shea Horne
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Pittsburgh |
1920 |
Solo exhibition at the Clarence White School of Photography
Participant: Bernard Shea Horne
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New York |
August 25–September 10, 1920 |
Kobenhavns fotografiske Amatør-Klubs Jubilaeums-Udstilling exhibition
Participant: Bernard Shea Horne
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Copenhagen |
May 1923 |
First International Salon of the Pictorial Photographers of America
Participant: Bernard Shea Horne
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New York |
1924 |
Serves as acting president of the White School Alumni Association
At location: Bernard Shea Horne
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New York |
1924–25 |
Publishes photographs in Camera Pictures
Contributor: Gertrude LeRoy Brown, Bernard Shea Horne
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New York |
1926 |
Solo exhibition at the Art Center
Participant: Bernard Shea Horne
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New York |
1933 |
Dies
At location: Bernard Shea Horne
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New York |