Self-portrait
Artist
Ralph Steiner
(American, 1899 - 1986)
Date1929; printed 1978
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 9 9/16 × 7 9/16 inches (24.29 × 19.21 cm)
Sheet: 9 15/16 × 7 7/8 inches (25.24 × 20 cm)
Sheet: 9 15/16 × 7 7/8 inches (25.24 × 20 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.2209
SignedOn sheet verso, top, in black pen: "Ralph Steiner Self Portrait neg. 1929/pt.1978"
Inscribednone
Markingsnone
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DescriptionImage of a man (Ralph Steiner) standing in front of a weathered advertisement and holding onto an early 20th century large format camera with bellows extended.Exhibition HistoryFaces: an Exhibition from the Hallmark Photographic Collection. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 16 -October 21, 1984, no cat.
Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1978;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005..
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005..
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Ralph Steiner
1936; printed 1980
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