The Spider's Web — Anne W. Brigman, 1908

Anne W. Brigman made The Spider's Web in 1908, at the height of her association with Alfred Stieglitz and the Photo-Secession. A woman floats weightless inside a textured veil, the space around her deliberately hard to read. Curators at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which holds this print through the Stieglitz bequest, connect it to traditions in which the spider stands for female creative power, possibly to the Lakota figure Iktomi. Brigman built an entire body of work from hybrids of human, plant and animal form.

It is an unusually quiet image for something so strange. The tonal range stays narrow, the veil dissolves any hard edge, and the eye never quite settles on a horizon. On a wall it behaves less like a photograph of a person and more like weather, reading differently depending on the light in the room. It suits a space that wants depth rather than a focal point.

Each piece is printed to order and stretched over a 1.25 inch solid wood frame, with the image continuing around the edges. It arrives ready to hang, no framing required, in three vertical sizes. The source file is an open-access reproduction of a photograph now in the public domain, and the original print remains in the Museum's collection.

• Medium: matte canvas, stretched over a 1.25 inch solid wood frame
• Orientation: vertical
• Sizes: 12×18in, 16×24in, 24×36in
• Finish: monochrome reproduction, matte surface
• Hanging: arrives ready to hang, no frame required
• Artwork: Anne W. Brigman, The Spider's Web, 1908, gelatin silver print
• Original held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Alfred Stieglitz Collection
• Printed to order, shipped from the nearest production partner