City of Ambition, 1910, printed 1911

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Lifetime Exhibitions

A print from the same negative—perhaps a photograph from the Gallery’s collection—appeared in the following exhibition(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:

1910, Buffalo (no. 439, as The City of Ambition, 1910, photogravure)
1911, London (no. 36, as The City of Ambitions)
1913, New York (no. 22, as The City of Ambitions, 1910)
1921, New York (no. 20, as The City of Ambition, 1910)
1944, Philadelphia (no. 21, as Singer Building, 1910)

Lifetime Publications

A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:

Camera Work 36 (October 1911): pl. 1 (ill., City of Ambition, 1910)

George Routledge, “The London Secession Pictures,” Photograms of the Year 1911–1912 (New York, 1912): 36 (ill., The City of Ambitions)

Thomas Craven, “Stieglitz—Old Master of the Camera,” Saturday Evening Post 216:28 (8 January 1944): 15 (ill., The City of Ambitions)

Note

Image courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Provenance

Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.

Exhibition History

1992

Stieglitz in the Darkroom, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, October 4, 1992–February 14, 1993

Bibliography

2002

Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 341.

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