Ernest Gutman
1933
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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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
1949.3.733
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Stieglitz Estate Number
45E
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
1496
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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)