Morton Schamberg

(Self-portrait)
1912

Vintage sepia-toned photograph of a man in a pinstripe suit with a tie, seated and looking to the side. He wears round wire-rimmed glasses and has a mustache. His right hand rests on the back of a wooden chair, and a dark vase is visible in the background, which appears to be a room with a chest of drawers. The photo has a black border and is mounted on a card with handwritten notes at the bottom edge.
Vintage sepia-toned photograph of a man in a pinstripe suit with a tie, seated and looking to the side. He wears round wire-rimmed glasses and has a mustache. His right hand rests on the back of a wooden chair, and a dark vase is visible in the background, which appears to be a room with a chest of drawers. The photo has a black border and is mounted on a card with handwritten notes at the bottom edge.

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Date
1912

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Platinum print

Dimensions
Sheet: 8 1/8 × 6 5/16in. (20.6 × 16 cm) Image: 8 1/8 × 6 5/16in. (20.6 × 16 cm) Mount: 9 1/16 × 6 5/8 × 1/16in. (23 × 16.8 × 0.2 cm) Mount (Secondary): 9 3/4 × 7 1/4 × 1/16in. (24.8 × 18.4 × 0.2 cm)

Accession number
76.28

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Claire R. Reis

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

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