Jane Reece

Influenced by the work of Alfred Stieglitz, Eva Watson-Schütze, and Clarence White (with whom she studied with briefly in New York), Jane Reece opened a photography studio in 1903 in Dayton, Ohio and soon became a sought-after portraitist.

Reece visited Los Angeles in 1919, and while there she photographed Edward Weston, Tina Modotti, and Modotti’s common-law husband Roubaix de l'Abrie Richey. Reece created one of her best-known images, the Symbolist-inspired portrait of Modotti titled I Have Drowned My Sorrow in a Shallow Cup, which was inspired by Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

The negative for this print is located along with Reece’s archives at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. No other extant prints have been located at the time of this writing.