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Alvin Langdon Coburn

ca. 1909–10
Not on view
Despite Coburn's photographic talent and his role as one of the founding members of the Photo-Secession, he engendered many personal animosities within the Stieglitz circle. In particular, his fastidious appearance and his close relationship with his overbearing mother were mercilessly ridiculed. In this caricature, de Zayas accentuates the lines of Coburn's hair and beard. It is possible that this drawing, in which Coburn seems to step outside the frame of one of his own landscape photographs, was inspired by the photographer's one-man exhibition at 291 in January–February 1909.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Alvin Langdon Coburn
  • Artist: Marius de Zayas (Mexican, Veracruz 1880–1961 Stamford, Connecticut)
  • Date: ca. 1909–10
  • Medium: Brush and black ink on paper
  • Dimensions: 15 3/4 × 11 1/8 in. (40 × 28.3 cm)
  • Classification: Drawings
  • Credit Line: Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949
  • Object Number: 49.70.195
  • Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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