Frank Eugene

1907

Alfred Stieglitz

Associated Names
Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

The image shows a man from the waist up, seated and slightly leaning to one side. His head is tilted towards the camera, with a hand touching the brim of his hat. He has a mustache and a full beard, with light-colored hair. The man is dressed in a dark suit jacket over a white shirt and a navy blue tie with white polka dots. In his other hand, he holds a large beer stein filled with amber liquid and a cap lifter over the rim. The background is filled with green foliage.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    Autochrome

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 17.1 × 11.9 cm (6 3/4 × 4 11/16 in.)
    overall: 18 × 13 cm (7 1/16 × 5 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1949.3.298

  • Key Set Number

    317

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. 317.

Wikidata ID

Q64034808

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

A founding member of the Photo-Secession, Frank Eugene (born Frank Eugene Smith in New York City) studied painting at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. After his return to the United States in 1894 he worked as a stage designer and portrait painter and learned how to photograph. In 1907 Eugene was appointed to the staff of the Institute of Photography in Munich-Schwabing and in 1913 to the chair of nature photography at the Royal Academy of Graphic Arts, Leipzig.

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