Spring—The Child
1901, printed 1903/1904
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
photogravure on beige thin slightly textured laid Japanese paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 24.3 x 30.6 cm (9 9/16 x 12 1/16 in.)
sheet: 30.5 x 42.2 cm (12 x 16 5/8 in.)
mat: 47 x 63.5 cm (18 1/2 x 25 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.263
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Stieglitz Estate Number
124C
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
273
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Bibliography
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 273.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, lower right, in graphite: Alfred Stieglitz 1900; center right: #4; on mount, lower center, in graphite: #4; lower right: X
by later hands, center right, on mount, in graphite: "Spring"-1901 / by Alfred Stieglitz; lower left: 124C
Wikidata ID
Q64034773
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
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, 1949.837
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, YCAL MSS 85, box 129, folder 2502
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 49.55.11
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Ph-135
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1949-18-54
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 52.1852
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:
1902, New York (no. 135, as Spring, 1901)
1902, Paris (no. 465, as Printemps)
1902, London (no. 66, as Spring)
1902, Leeds (no. 616, as Spring)
1903, Minneapolis (no. 10, as Spring)
1903, Toronto (no. 16, as Spring)
1903, Hamburg (no. 425, as Spring, platinum)
1903, San Francisco (no. 32, as Spring)
1903, Denver (no. 147, as Spring)
1903, Rochester (no. 197, as Spring)
1904, Washington (no. 127, as Spring)
1904, Pittsburgh (no. 218, as Spring)
1904, Vienna (no. 4, as Früling)
1904, Dresden (no. 170, as Spring)
1904, Bradford (no. 214, as Spring)
1905, Vienna, Camera Klub (no. 39, as Spring, 1902)
1905, Berlin (no. 49, as Spring)
1905, Richmond (no. 840, as Spring)
1905, New York, Camera Club (as Spring)
1905, London (no. 120, as Spring)
1905, New York, Photo-Secession (no. 80, as Spring)
1906, Philadelphia (no. 116, as Spring)
1906, Cincinnati (no. 62, as Spring)
1909, New York (no. 184, as Spring, 1901)
1909, Dresden (no. 168, as Spring)
1910, Buffalo (no. 430, as Spring, 1900, photogravure)
1914, London, R.P.S. (no. 70, as Spring)
Lifetime Publications
A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
Camera Notes 5:3 (January 1902): opp. 165 (ill., Spring)
The Work of Alfred Stieglitz [published by Camera Notes] (New York, 1904): unnumbered (ill., Spring—The Child, photogravure)
Camera Work 12 (October 1905): pl. 4 (ill., Spring, 1901)
The Photo-Miniature 7:79 (March 1907): 327 (ill., Spring)
J. Nilsen Laurvik, “Alfred Stieglitz, Pictorial Photographer,” The International Studio 44:174 (August 1911): 23 (ill., Spring)