The Alfred Stieglitz Collection
  • Recto of print
  • Verso of print
  • Print seen with transmitted light, to reveal watermark
  • Photomicrograph showing print surface (scale bar is in micrometers)
  • Photomicrograph of artist’s monogram (scale bar is in millimeters)

Heinrich Kühn (Austrian, born Germany, 1866–1944)

Portrait of Stieglitz, 1900/10

Gum bichromate print; 23.9 x 19 cm (image/paper)
Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949.867

 

Additional resources related to this object are to the right. Comprehensive material analysis is found in the Object Research PDF.

 

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