Florence Cane

1922

Alfred Stieglitz

Associated Names
Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

This grayscale photograph is close-up portrait of a woman's face and shoulders. She is facing forward, looking directly at us. She has pale skin, large, round eyes with deep shadows underneath them, a long nose, and thin lips in a neutral expression. Her dark hair is styled behind her head and parted in the middle, framing her face. She wears a dark garment with a collar and a V-neckline. The background is a neutral, textured surface.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to image): 24.2 × 19.3 cm (9 1/2 × 7 5/8 in.)
    mount: 56.3 × 46.4 cm (22 3/16 × 18 1/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1949.3.483

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    82A

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    733

The image shows a man leaning his head on his hand, positioned with his face resting on his left hand. He has a mustache, thin-framed eyeglasses, and thick, greying hair that curls slightly at the edges. He is dressed in a formal jacket, a white shirt, and a black bow tie. The background is a soft, dark blur.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

Bibliography

2002

  • Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 733.

Inscriptions

by Doris Bry, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 82 - A

Wikidata ID

Q64035031

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

A painter who lived in Westport, Connecticut, Florence Cane and her husband Melville were supporters of Stieglitz, O’Keeffe, and Arthur Dove. Her own paintings were exhibited at the Anderson Galleries in 1922.

“Weather has been glorious.—Plenty of sun to permit printing quite a bit.—And some of the prints are ready for mounting.—And some are truly beautiful. A portrait I did of Georgia I did on the same day I tried Florence Cane is quite extraordinary” (Stieglitz to Paul Rosenfeld, 22 July 1922 [YCAL]).

A variant of this photograph was reproduced in Vanity Fair 18 (July 1922), 50.

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