
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00007048An Ethiopian Chief
Inscriptions
Blindstamped recto, on image, lower left: FD; unmarked verso
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, "The Portrait Photograph," January 1-March 2, 1975. Art Institute of Chicago, "Platinum Prints from the Permanent Collection," January 15-March 20, 1977. (Kathleen Lamb) New York, New York, The Metropolitain Museum of Art, "The Art of Seeing: Photographs from the Alfred Stieglitz Collection," Spring 1978. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, "Alfred Stieglitz and his Contemporaries," September 9–November 3, 1997. Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, “Frederick Holland Day,” April 20–June 24, 2001; traveled to Boston, MA, Museum of Fine Arts, December 6, 2000–March 25, 2001; Munich, Germany, Museum Villa Stuck, July 18–September 30, 2001. Art Institute of Chicago, "From Darkroom to Digital: Photographic Variations," November 19–February 26, 2006. (Elizabeth Siegel) Art Institute of Chicago, "Alfred Stieglitz and the 19th Century," October 31, 2015-March 27, 2016.
Publications
Shimbun, Asahi. 1997. “Alfred Stieglitz and his Contemporaries.” Exh. cat. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. p. 106, pl. 100. Roberts, Pam et al. 2000. “F. Holland Day.” Exh. cat. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam/Waanders Publishers. p. 124, cat. 22. Cogeval, Guy et al. 2013. "Masculine/Masculine: The Nude Man in Art from 1800 to the Present Day." Exh. cat. Musée d'Orsay/Flammarion. p. 156, cat. 116.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- F. Holland Day / American, 1864–1933
- Date
- 1897, printed c. 1902
- Medium
- Platinum print
- Dimensions
- Image/paper: 21 × 18.6 cm (8 5/16 × 7 3/8 in.); First mount: 21.7 × 19.3 cm (8 9/16 × 7 5/8 in.); Second mount: 22 × 19.7 cm (8 11/16 × 7 13/16 in.); Third mount: 22.8 × 20.5 cm (9 × 8 1/8 in.); Fourth mount: 45.7 × 35.5 cm (18 × 14 in.)
- Type
- Photograph
- Classification
- platinum print
- Style
- Pictorialism
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Photography and Media
- Credit line
- Alfred Stieglitz Collection
- Accession no.
- 1949.858
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