Anita Brenner

1927

Tina Modotti

Associated Names
Tina Modotti

Artist, Italian, 1896 - 1942

The image features a close-up of a person's upper body with defined facial features. The individual is positioned slightly sideways with their head tilted downward and facing slightly to the right, looking towards the ground. They are wearing a wide-brimmed hat with a decorative ribbon, a white collar, a black bow tie, and a dark-colored jacket. The background is plain and muted, emphasizing the person's profile in the black-and-white photograph.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 9.5 × 7.4 cm (3 3/4 × 2 15/16 in.)
    mount: 20.3 × 15.3 cm (8 × 6 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2014.99.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Estate of Anita Brenner; by descent to Susannah Glusker, her daughter; Estate of Susannah Glusker; (Paul M. Hertzmann, Inc., San Francisco); NGA purchase, 2014.

Associated Names

Bibliography

2010

  • Susannah Joel Glusker, editor. Avant-Garde Art & Artists in Mexico: Anita Brenner's Journals of the Roaring Twenties. 2 volumes. Austin, 2010: 320, unnumbered reproduction.

Inscriptions

signed by artist, lower right in graphite: T.M.; on verso of mount, by unknown hand, lower center in graphite: 6820

Wikidata ID

Q64170937

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