Ernest Gutman

1933

Alfred Stieglitz

Associated Names
Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

The image depicts the upper body of a man in a seated position. He has a beard, mustache, and thick tousled hair. He is wearing a dark suit jacket over a shirt and tie. The background is a light-colored wall with a window or vertical structure partially visible on the right side.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to image): 24.2 × 19.3 cm (9 1/2 × 7 5/8 in.)
    mount: 51.9 × 38.7 cm (20 7/16 × 15 1/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1949.3.733

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    45E

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    1496

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. 1496.

Inscriptions

by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, bottom left verso, in graphite: 45E

Wikidata ID

Q64035609

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

In summer 1933 Stieglitz wrote to Gutman from Lake George, saying he was sending proofs of this portrait, made at An American Place in the spring of 1933 (see Stieglitz to Ernest Gutman, 3 July and 1 September 1933, YCAL).

Ernest Gutman was a largely self-taught sculptor.

Other Collections

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

The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1935.98 (inscribed: Alfred Stieglitz / Portrait of Ernest Guteman [sic] / 1933)

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:

1934, New York (no. 34, as Ernest Gutman, 1933)
1934, Cleveland (no. 52, as Ernest Gutman, 1933)

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