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A Mexican

Person in Photograph Adolf de Meyer American, born France
1905
Not on view
With his brow arched beneath a tilted hat and hand elegantly grasping a stark white scarf, de Meyer dons a mysterious alter ego. Like de Meyer, Sears was involved with the two major groups devoted to art photography: the Photo-Secession and the Linked Ring Brotherhood. The two artists may have met through a mutual friend, the photographer F. Holland Day, who included their work in his exhibition “New School of American Photography,” on view in London in 1900 and Paris the following year. The title for this portrait follows a Photo-Secession tradition of withholding the sitter’s name when exhibiting publicly.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: A Mexican
  • Artist: Sarah Choate Sears (American, 1858–1935)
  • Person in Photograph: Adolf de Meyer (American (born France), Paris 1868–1946 Los Angeles, California)
  • Date: 1905
  • Medium: Platinum print
  • Dimensions: 24.2 x 18.7 cm. (9 1/2 x 7 3/8 in.)
  • Classification: Photographs
  • Credit Line: Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1933
  • Object Number: 33.43.265
  • Curatorial Department: Photographs

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