Watching for the Return, 1894

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Remarks

For Stieglitz’s description of Katwijk, see Key Set number 206.

Other Collections

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

National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2006.133.124

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:

1896, London (no. 262, as Watching for the Return)
1899, New York (no. 31, as Watching for the Return, 1894, photogravure)
1901, Glasgow (no. 116, as Watching for the Return)
1902, New York (no. 128, as Watching for the Return, 1894)
1902, Turin (no. 63, as In attesta del ritorno)
1903, Minneapolis (no. 7, as Watching for the Return)
1903, Toronto (no. 14, as Watching for the Return)
1903, Brussels (no. 434, as Watching for the Return)
1903, Hamburg (no. 427, as Watching for the Return, carbon)
1903, San Francisco (no. 31, as Watching for the Return)
1903, Denver (no. 149, as Watching for the Return)
1904, Washington (no. 134, as Watching for the Return)
1904, Pittsburgh (no. 225, as Watching for the Return)
1904, The Hague (no. 123, as Watching for the Return)
1909, Dresden (no. 167, as Watching for the Return)
1910, Buffalo (no. 426, as Watching for the Return, Katwyk, 1894, carbon)
1913, New York (no. 4, as Watching for the Return, 1894)

Lifetime Publications

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

The Photographic Times 28 (January 1896): 1 (ill., Watching for the Return, photogravure)

Wiener Photographische Blätter 3:10 (October 1896): between 188 and 189 (ill., In Erwartung der Heimkehr)

Walter Colls, ed., Pictorial Photographs: A Record of the Photographic Salon of 1896

‘Erwartung’ von Alfred Stieglitz, Photographisches Centralblatt 5 (1899): between 412 and 413 (ill., Erwartung)

Photographische Rundschau 16:12 (1902): unpaginated (ill., Erwartung, photogravure)

Joseph Keiley, “American Pictorial Photographers. Alfred Stieglitz,” Photography 17:797 (20 February 1904): 159 (ill., Waiting for the Return of the Boats)

Inscription

by Alfred Stieglitz, lower left, in graphite: AS

by later hand, on mount, lower right, in graphite: #1

Provenance

Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.

Bibliography

2002

Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 224.

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