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Portrait of Stella Bloch
Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (American (born in Ceylon), 1877–1947)
1919–20
Medium/Technique
Photograph, gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Sheet: 23.5 × 18.4 cm (9 1/4 × 7 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Dr. Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
Accession Number23.1307
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas, Photography
ClassificationsPhotographs
Catalogue Raisonné
S.302.1-3.1997
DescriptionIn addition to being an insightful writer on aesthetics and symbolism, Ananda Coomaraswamy, the Museum's Keeper of Indian Art, was an amateur photographer. It was he who proposed the Museum's first Stieglitz acquisition, in 1924. The dancer Stella Bloch was at the this time Coomaraswamy's wife.
Provenance1923, gift of the artist to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 1, 1923)