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Here, This Is Stieglitz Here

1915
Not on view
Picabia took a radical approach to modern portraiture, appropriating mass-produced images of machines to represent his subjects. The visual source for this witty caricature of Stieglitz was a magazine advertisement for the popular Vest Pocket Kodak camera. Picabia arranged the Stieglitz-camera with its bellows extended but disengaged, and its lens focused on the "IDEAL." Its upward movement, however, is impeded by the automobile gears set in park. Symbolically, Picabia represented the concerns being expressed within the "291" inner circle that Stieglitz was losing his drive to continue fighting for modern art. This drawing, with its cut-and pasted strips of printed words and pencil corrections, was the mock-up for the cover of the July–August 1915 issue of 291.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Here, This Is Stieglitz Here
  • Artist: Francis Picabia (French, Paris 1879–1953 Paris)
  • Date: 1915
  • Medium: Ink, graphite, and pasted and printed papers on paper
  • Dimensions: 29 7/8 in. × 20 in. (75.9 × 50.8 cm)
  • Classification: Drawings
  • Credit Line: Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949
  • Object Number: 49.70.14
  • Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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