Louis Kalonyme

1932

Alfred Stieglitz

Associated Names
Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

The image depicts a man leaning against a wall. He is from the waist up, with his right hand on his hip and his left hand in his pocket. The man has a receding hairline, short hair, and a stern expression. He is wearing a white short-sleeved polo shirt with a wide collar and light-colored corduroy pants with a belt. The background shows a porch-like area with horizontal wooden siding and a louvered window partially visible to his left.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to image): 22.3 × 17.9 cm (8 3/4 × 7 1/16 in.)
    mount: 53.7 × 39.6 cm (21 1/8 × 15 9/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1949.3.716

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    86A

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    1477

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

Exhibition History

1995

  • Alfred Stieglitz at Lake George, Museum of Modern Art, New York, September 14, 1995–January 2, 1996

Bibliography

2002

  • Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 1477.

Inscriptions

by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 86A

Wikidata ID

Q64035567

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

Louis Kalonyme was an art critic and a frequent visitor to Lake George in the 1920s and 1930s.

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 1934, New York (no. 33, as Louis Kalonyme, 1932)

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