Paul Rosenfeld

1922/1923

Alfred Stieglitz

Associated Names
Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

The image displays a close-up portrait of a man's face from the shoulders up. The man is sitting or posing while looking directly at the camera with a neutral expression. He has a round face with prominent facial features, including a mustache and neatly combed back hair with a slight wave on top. The man is dressed in a suit jacket over a shirt and tie. The background is softly blurred with abstract patterns or textures. There are no visible pieces of jewelry or objects in his hands.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    palladium print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    image (visible): 22.8 × 18.3 cm (9 × 7 3/16 in.)
    mat: 56.6 × 46.4 cm (22 5/16 × 18 1/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1949.3.602

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    33B

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    732

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. 732.

Inscriptions

by Doris Bry, on mount, lower left, in graphite: Treated by Steichen 1949; on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 33B

Wikidata ID

Q64035273

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

The painting behind Rosenfeld may be Arthur Dove’s Factory Music, Silver, Yellow, Indian-Red and Blue, c. 1923 (Morgan, no. 23.4).

Stieglitz Collections

A corresponding print was given to the following institution(s) by Alfred Stieglitz during his lifetime, or was received or acquired from the estate:

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, YCAL MSS 85, box 124, folder 2479

George Eastman Museum, Rochester, 74:0052:0049 [gelatin silver]

Library of Congress, Washington, MPH-22 B [gelatin silver]

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 63.1950

Other Collections

A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):

The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, 1976.1

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 (no. 70, as Paul Rosenfeld, 1922)

possibly 1932, New York (no. 80, as Paul Rosenfeld, 1923)

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