Even without any facial features, Stieglitz, hands in pockets, is identifiable by his long black coat and wild shock of hair, which de Zayas exaggerated for humorous effect. The same figure was used in an ad for Camera Work (April 1910), where it was paired with a short text. Like the original drawing, the printed version utilizes the white space around the figure to emphasize the curvature of his pose.
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Title:Alfred Stieglitz
Artist:Marius de Zayas (Mexican, Veracruz 1880–1961 Stamford, Connecticut)
Date:1910
Medium:Brush and black ink over graphite on paper
Dimensions:19 3/4 in. × 15 in. (50.2 × 38.1 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949
Object Number:49.70.196
the artist (to Stieglitz); Alfred Stieglitz, New York (probably 1910–d. 1946; his estate, 1946–49; gift to MMA)
Lawrence. Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas. "Marius de Zayas: Conjurer of Souls," September 27–November 8, 1981, no. 19.
Philadelphia Museum of Art. "Marius de Zayas: Conjurer of Souls," December 18, 1981 – February 14, 1982, no. 19.
New York. Center for Inter-American Relations. "Marius de Zayas: Conjurer of Souls," March 2 – April 4, 1982, no. 19.
Mexico City. Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo. "Octavio Paz: Los Privilegios de la Vista," March–June 1990, no. 84.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Marius de Zayas: A Mexican in New York," September 13, 1990–March 1991, no catalogue.
Katonah, N. Y. Katonah Museum of Art. "Friends and Family: Portraiture in the World of Florine Stettheimer," September 19–November 28, 1993, unnumbered cat. (p. 24).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Marius de Zayas & Stieglitz Circle," March 19–June 27, 2004, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe," October 13, 2011–January 2, 2012, no. 230.
Robert M. Doty. Photo-Secession: Photography as a Fine Art. New York, 1960, p. 32.
Jonathan Green, ed. Camera Work: A Critical Anthology. New York, 1973, p. 281.
Dorothy Norman. Alfred Stieglitz: An American Seer. New York, 1973, p. 107, fig. 45 (photogravure).
Craig R. Bailey. "The Art of Marius de Zayas." Arts Magazine 53 (September 1978), pp. 136–37, 139 (ill. of printed version with text).
Robert M. Doty. Photo-Secession: Stieglitz and the Fine-Art Movement in Photography. (1st ed.1960). New York, 1978, p. 32, ill.
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, frontis. (ill).
Douglas Hyland. Marius de Zayas: Conjurer of Souls. Exh. cat., Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas. Lawrence, Kansas, 1981, pp. 39, 98–99, no. 19, ill. (printed version).
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. 227, 287, no. 230, ill. (color).
Holland Cotter. "High Aims for Art's Sake." New York Times (October 14, 2011), pp. C25, C28, ill.
Marius de Zayas (Mexican, Veracruz 1880–1961 Stamford, Connecticut)
ca. 1910
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