John Marin

1921/1922

Alfred Stieglitz

Associated Names
Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

The image shows a man posed for a close-up portrait from the chest up. He is turned slightly to his left and is looking at the camera. His facial features include a prominent nose and deeply set eyes. He has thick, wavy hair that is slightly messy. The man is dressed in a dark textured jacket over a light-colored collared shirt with a tie. His right hand is touching his chin, and a cufflink is visible on the cuff of his white shirt. The background is softly blurred.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to image): 23.2 x 18.5 cm (9 1/8 x 7 5/16 in.)
    mount: 56.1 x 46.3 cm (22 1/16 x 18 1/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1949.3.510

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    34C

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    707

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

2016

  • Georgia O'Keeffe, Tate Modern, London, July 6–October 30, 2016; Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna, December 7, 2016–March 26, 2017; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, April 22–July 30, 2017

Bibliography

2002

  • Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 707.

Inscriptions

by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, lower left, in graphite: Portrait—John Marin / by Alfred Stieglitz / 489 Park Ave / Keep clean & return to
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 34 C

Wikidata ID

Q64035078

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

Although Stieglitz must have made the negatives for this photograph and Key Set numbers 706, 708, 709, and 710 during the same sitting, he inscribed some prints 1921, others 1922.

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:

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 49.55.39 [palladium]

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 24.1718 [palladium] (inscribed: Portrait—John Marin / Photograph by / Alfred Stieglitz / 1921 / Negative & Print made / by Alfred Stieglitz / 1921 / Print no. 2 from this negative)

Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1943-18-63 [palladium]

Other Collections

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

Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville

Milwaukee Art Museum, M2006.8 [platinum or platinum-palladium]

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. 64–66, as John Marin, 1922)

Lifetime Publications

A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:

Paul Rosenfeld, Port of New York: Essays on Fourteen American Moderns (New York, 1924): frontispiece (ill., John Marin)

Waldo Frank et al., America & Alfred Stieglitz (New York, 1934): pl. 23c (ill., John Marin, 1920)

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