Edward Steichen

     Edward Steichen or Eduard Jean Steichen was an American painter and photographer as well as a museum curater. He was born in Luxemborg on March 27, 1879 and died March 25 1973 in Redding, CT. Steichen met Alfred Stieglitz in 1900 in New York and in their meeting Stieglitz complimented Steichen and bought three of his prints. His first wife Clara Smith he married in 1903. They had two daughter Katherine and Mary, then got a divorcein 1922. In 1923 Steichen married Dana Desboro Glover but she died of leukemia in 1957. He married his last wife in 1960 named Joanna Taub. Edward was the first person in the United States to use the Autochrome Lumiere process with color photography in 1904. In 1963 on December 6 he was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedomby Lyndon Johnson.