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Title:Charles Darnton
Artist:Marius de Zayas (Mexican, Veracruz 1880–1961 Stamford, Connecticut)
Date:ca. 1912
Medium:Charcoal and graphite on paper
Dimensions:24 1/2 x 18 3/4 in. (62.2 x 47.6 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949
Accession Number:49.70.191
the artist (to Stieglitz); Alfred Stieglitz, New York (probably 1913–d. 1946; his estate, 1946–49; gift to MMA)
New York. 291. "An Exhibition of Caricatures, Absolute and Relative, by Marius de Zayas of New York," April 8–May 20, 1913, no. 17.
Philadelphia. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. "Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings Showing the Later Tendencies in Art," April 16–May 15, 1921, no. 208 (as "Darnton," lent by Alfred Stieglitz).
New York. Whitney Studio Club. "Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings: Selected and Arranged by Mr. W.E. Hill," January 23–February 6, 1924, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Marius de Zayas: A Mexican in New York," September 13, 1990–March 1991, no catalogue.
Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City. "Marius de Zayas: Un destierro moderno," May 7–September 13, 2009, no. 13.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe," October 13, 2011–January 2, 2012, no. 248.
William B. McCormick. "Review." New York Press (1913), (reprinted in "Camera Work," no. 42–43, April–July 1913, publ. November 1913, p. 51).
J. Edgar Chamberlin. "Review." New York Mail (1913), (reprinted in "Camera Work," no. 42–43, April–July 1913, publ. November 1913, p. 52).
Camera Work no. 46 (April 1914 [publ. October 1914]), pl. 3.
"Review of Whitney Studio Club Exhibition." Evening World (March 7, 1924).
Waldo Frank, Lewis Mumford, Dorothy Norman, Paul Rosenfeld, and Harold Rugg, ed. America and Alfred Stieglitz: A Collective Portrait. Garden City, N. Y., 1934, pl. XIA.
Craig R. Bailey. "The Art of Marius de Zayas." Arts Magazine 53 (September 1978), p. 138.
Waldo Frank, Lewis Mumford, Dorothy Norman, Paul Rosenfeld, and Harold Rugg, ed. America and Alfred Stieglitz: A Collective Portrait. Rev. ed (1st ed., 1934). Millerton, N. Y., 1979, pl. 47.
Willard Bohn. "The Abstract Vision of Marius de Zayas." Art Bulletin 62 (September 1980), pp. 436–38.
Douglas Hyland. Marius de Zayas: Conjurer of Souls. Exh. cat., Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas. Lawrence, Kansas, 1981, pp. 33, 100, ill. p. 101 (photogravure).
Sylvia Yount and Elizabeth Johns. To Be Modern: American Encounters with Cézanne and Company. Exh. cat., Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Philadelphia, 1996, ill. p. 76 (Exh. Philadelphia 1921 cat.).
Lisa Mintz Messinger inStieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe. The Alfred Stieglitz Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ed. Lisa Mintz Messinger. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2011, pp. 234, 290, no. 248, ill. (color).
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Marius de Zayas (Mexican, Veracruz 1880–1961 Stamford, Connecticut)
1910
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