Emil C. Zoler

1912/1913

Alfred Stieglitz

Associated Names
Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

The image depicts an upper-body portrait of a man standing and leaning against a doorframe. His arms are crossed, holding a cigarette in his left hand. He has a composed expression with slightly downturned eyes and a serious demeanor. The man's hair is curly and protrudes from beneath a textured hat. He wears a thick, dark overcoat over a high-collared shirt with a dark bow tie. The backdrop is dim and blurred, with the doorframe on the left providing framing to the image.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    platinum print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 24 × 18.8 cm (9 7/16 × 7 3/8 in.)
    sheet: 25.2 × 20.2 cm (9 15/16 × 7 15/16 in.)
    mount: 50.7 × 38.1 cm (19 15/16 × 15 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1949.3.421

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    36E

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    377

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. 377.

Inscriptions

by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, lower left, in graphite: Emil C. Zoler / "291"
by later hand, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 36 E

Wikidata ID

Q64034935

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

An artist, anarchist, and Wobbly (as members of the radical Industrial Workers of the World labor union are known), Emil Zoler met Stieglitz through Marsden Hartley. Although Stieglitz never showed his work, Zoler often visited and lent a willing hand at 291, the Intimate Gallery, and An American Place.

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 1921, New York (no. 27, as Emil C. Zoler, 1913)

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