Portrait of a Dog
1942 · Gelatin silver print
Image: 30.7 × 24 cm (12 1/8 × 9 1/2 in.); Mount: 45.9 × 35.6 cm (18 1/8 × 14 1/16 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
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Arnold Genthe
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PhotographyPhotography
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None documented
12
Institutional Exhibitions
81
Works in Collection
97
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Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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Glamour Portraits
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1965
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Edward Steichen Photography Center
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1964
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Portraits from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1960
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30th Anniversary Special Installation - Towards the "New" Museum
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1959
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Photographs from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1958–1959
About
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Arnold Genthe was an American photographer known for his candid street photography and portraiture in the early twentieth century. Working primarily with a handheld camera, he documented urban life and cultural figures with an immediacy that anticipated modern photojournalism. His images of San Francisco's Chinatown, made before the 1906 earthquake, remain significant records of immigrant communities. Genthe's later work included celebrity portraits and landscape photography across the American West.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 25d ago
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