Claudia O'Keeffe

1922

Alfred Stieglitz

Associated Names
Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

The image shows a person lying on their side with their face resting against an African mask. The person's eyes are closed, and they have dark, medium-length hair. They appear unclothed, with their bare shoulder visible. The person is holding an intricately carved wooden mask with distinct features. The background is blurred, emphasizing the person and the mask.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    image (visible): 18.1 × 19.3 cm (7 1/8 × 7 5/8 in.)
    mat: 58.42 × 47.94 cm (23 × 18 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1949.3.519

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    35C

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    730

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

Exhibition History

2009

  • Man Ray: African Art and the Modernist Lens, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, October 10, 2009–January 10, 2010; University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, February 6–May 30, 2010; University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, August 7–October 10, 2010; Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, October 30, 2010–January 23, 2011

Bibliography

2002

  • Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 730.

2009

  • Grossman, Wendy. Man Ray, African Art and the Modernist Lens. Exh. cat. The Phillips Collection, Washington, 2009.

Inscriptions

by later hand, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 35 C

Wikidata ID

Q64035087

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

Claudia O’Keeffe holds a nineteenth- or early twentieth-century mask made by the Baule or Yaure people. The mask was possibly included in an exhibition of African wood statuary held at 291 from 3 November to 8 December 1914.

Lifetime Exhibitions

A print from the same negative—perhaps a photograph from the Gallery’s collection—appeared in the following exhibition(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:

possibly 1923, New York (nos. 27–28, as Claudia O’Keeffe, 1922)

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