Ma
1915/1917
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
platinum print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 24.5 x 19.5 cm (9 5/8 x 7 11/16 in.)
sheet: 25 x 20.2 cm (9 13/16 x 7 15/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.348
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Stieglitz Estate Number
52B
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
413
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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. 413.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: Exhibition / 1921 / Ma —
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 52 B
Wikidata ID
Q64034860
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, 1949.714 (inscribed: Ma)
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, YCAL MSS 85, box 123, folder 2464
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
Bill Schubart
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2007.604
Private collection
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:
1921, New York (no. 63, as My Mother, 1914)