Bowdoin College Museum of Art | - Two Friends from a set of Six Photogravures, ca. 1912-13, from Camera Work, no. XLVI

Preview image of work. photogravure on paper, Two Friends from a set of Six Photogravures, ca. 1912-13, from Camera Work, no. XLVI 34086

2017.29.6

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Two Friends from a set of Six Photogravures, ca. 1912-13, from Camera Work, no. XLVI

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Artist

Marius de Zayas (Veracruz, Mexico, 3/13/1880 - 1/10/1961, Stamford, Connecticut)

Title

Two Friends from a set of Six Photogravures, ca. 1912-13, from Camera Work, no. XLVI

Creation Date

ca. 1913

Century

early 20th century

Dimensions

9 1/4 x 7 in. (23.5 x 17.78 cm)

Object Type

Medium and Support

photogravure on paper

Credit Line

Museum Purchase, Lloyd O. and Marjorie Strong Coulter Fund

Copyright

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Accession Number

2017.29.6

A celebrated caricaturist early in his career, the Mexican artist Marius de Zayas became part of the circle of artists who clustered around “291,” the New York gallery of the photographer, publisher, and promoter of modern art Alfred Stieglitz. The work of de Zayas was highlighted in three exhibitions by Stieglitz between 1909 and 1913. One of the first artists to equate “likeness” with abstraction that revealed the inner qualities of the sitter, de Zayas sought to find pictorial strategies to describe the invisible reality that animated the individuals in our midst. His use of numerical equations (with no known mathematical significance) was intended to capture the enduring spirit of Agnes Meyer and Alfred Stieglitz, whose physical appearance would be subject to change. The artist’s depiction of President Theodore Roosevelt may play in part off of the politician’s published response to the 1913 Armory Show, which introduced the American public to modern art, prompting among many viewers derision and even alarm at the shock of abstraction.