Arnold Newman
Igor Stravinsky

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Artist Arnold Newman American, 1918–2006

CultureAmerican

Titles

Igor Stravinsky

Date1946

PlaceNew York City, New York, United States

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage/Sheet: 7 1/8 × 13 1/2 in. (18 × 34.3 cm)
Mount: 16 1/16 × 19 15/16 in. (40.8 × 50.6 cm)

Credit LineThe Target Collection of American Photography, museum purchase funded by Target Stores and the National Endowment for the Arts

Object number76.294

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Special Collections

Target Collection of American Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionThis portrait was commissioned by “Harper’s Bazaar,” but renowned art director Alexey Brodovitch rejected it. The photograph subsequently became one of Arnold Newman’s best known, so iconic that Newman later used it in a self-portrait, posing himself in the same position at the piano with a framed print of this Stravinsky portrait propped against the open lid.
Provenance[The Cronin Gallery, Houston]; purchased by MFAH, 1976.
Exhibition History"A Salute to the Performing Arts," San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX, May 6 - Jun 24 1984(LN:84.20)

"The Sounds I See: Photographs of Musicians," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Cameron Foundation Gallery, September 20, 2008 - January 19, 2009.

“Made for Magazines: Iconic 20th-Century Photographs,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 9–May 4, 2014.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

bottom leftbelow image in pencil "Igor Stravinsky 1946"
verso of mount bottom right corner in pencil "NEWMAN / VI 7"

bottom right below image in pencil "© Arnold Newman"

verso of mount center a stamp "© ARNOLD NEWMAN / THIS PHOTOGRAPH CANNOT BE COPIED / TELEVISED OR REPRODUCED IN ANY FORM / WITHOUT THE EXPRESSED AND WRITTEN / PERMISSION OF THE PHOTOGRAPHER, IT / CAN BE USED FOR EXHIBIT PURPOSES ONLY. / 39 WEST 67th ST., N.Y.C. 10023"

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