Otto Kahn at the opera

Longstreet, Stephen (1907-2002)

Item type:

drawing

Height:

27.9 cm  (11 in.)

Width:

21.5 cm  (8 7/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

watercolor, black ink, and graphite

Place of creation:

United States

Description

Drawing of American financier and arts patron Otto Kahn (1867-1934) at an opera performance (most likely at New York's Metropolitan Opera House). Item is signed by the artist (upper left corner), and inscribed "Patron of arts" (bottom center) and "Otto Kahn at the opera" (bottom right corner).

People as subjects

Kahn, Otto Hermann (1867-1934) (Non-musician/dancer)

Iconclass

61B2(OTTO H. KAHN)
historical person (OTTO H. KAHN)
48C78
listening to music
48C862
opera
48A7295
boxes, loges ~ theatre, etc.
48A723
opera house

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Notes

Artist Stephen Longstreet is perhaps better known as an author but he was also active as an artist. The University of Chicago Library owns many of his artworks at their Special Collections Research Center (http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/spcl/select.html) and also refers patrons to Longstreet materials at the Oakland Museum, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Yale University, the Mugar Memorial Library of Boston University, the Library of Congress, and the Smithsonian Institution.

RIdIM record id

6091