Arthur B. Carles

1923

Alfred Stieglitz

Associated Names
Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

The image shows a man with a thick mustache and beard, facing the camera with a dark garment. The background features soft, wavy patterns in shades of gray.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to image): 24.1 × 18.5 cm (9 1/2 × 7 5/16 in.)
    mount: 50.9 × 37.9 cm (20 1/16 × 14 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1949.3.578

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    45A

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    853

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. 2, cat. 853.

Inscriptions

by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, lower right, in graphite: G 1
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 45 A

Wikidata ID

Q64035217

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

O’Keeffe’s painting Music, Pink and Blue, no. 2, 1918 (Lynes 258), exhibited in 1923 at the Anderson Galleries, is in the background of this photograph and Key Set number 852.

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. 72–73, as Arthur B. Carles, 1923)

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