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    An Ethiopian Chief
    F. Holland Day. An Ethiopian Chief, 1897, printed c. 1902. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00007048

    An Ethiopian Chief

    by F. Holland Day

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    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.

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    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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