Portrait of Stella Bloch

Artist Ananda Coomaraswamy (Sri Lankan, 1877 - 1947)

Dateca. 1922

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage and sheet: 9 5/8 × 6 3/4 inches (24.46 × 17.15 cm)
Mount (1): 11 3/16 × 7 1/4 inches (28.42 × 18.42 cm)
Mount (2): 12 1/2 × 8 1/8 inches (31.75 × 20.65 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation

Object number2019.46.3

SignedOn mount 2 recto, lower right, black pen: "akc"

InscribedOn mount 2 verso, center, in pencil: "STELLA BLOCH / BY / ANANDA K. COOMARASWAMY"

MarkingsOn mount 2 verso, bottom, in pencil: "Bloch brow 1/2 R"

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DescriptionSoftly focused image of a woman looking down. Her dark hair falls over her bare shoulders.Provenance

Provenance

Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2019;
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2019.

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