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Sarah Greenough, “Alfred Stieglitz/Sun Rays—Paula, Berlin/1889, printed 1929/1937,” Alfred Stieglitz Key Set, NGA Online Editions, https://purl.org/nga/collection/artobject/35207 (accessed April 16, 2024).

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Key Set Entry

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Remarks

For more information about this photograph, see Key Set number 60.

Stieglitz Collections

A corresponding print was given to the following institution(s) by Alfred Stieglitz during his lifetime, or was received or acquired from the estate:

The Art Institute of Chicago, 1949.698

George Eastman Museum, Rochester, 74:0052:0040

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 50.822 (inscribed: “Paula—Sun Rays”—Berlin, 1887 / by Alfred Stieglitz / 90)

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 324.1942

Other Collections

A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):

Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 74-07-001 (inscribed, Paula—Sun Rays—1889 / by Alfred Stieglitz —)

Kunsthaus Zürich, Ph.Inv. 1989/60 (inscribed: Alfred Stieglitz / For Edward Dahlberg)

Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1997-146-97 (inscribed: Paula [1889] / Berlin / For Dorothy— / M’ch 25—1942 / Alfred)

Private collection

Inscription

by Doris Bry, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 55 E

Provenance

Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

O'Keeffe, Georgia

Exhibition History

1958
Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, March 16–April 27, 1958
1992
Stieglitz in the Darkroom, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, October 4, 1992–February 14, 1993

Bibliography

1958
Bry, Doris. Exhibition of Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1958: pl. 1.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 61.

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