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Sarah Greenough, “Alfred Stieglitz/From the Back-Window—291—Wall Closing In/1916,” Alfred Stieglitz Key Set, NGA Online Editions, https://purl.org/nga/collection/artobject/35551 (accessed March 29, 2024).

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Key Set Entry

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Remarks

For more information about this photograph, see Key Set number 426.

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:

possibly 1921, New York (no. 53, as Wall Closing In, 1915, from the series “From the Back-Window—291”)

Inscription

by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, center left verso, in graphite: 1916 / from 291

by later hand, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 13 C

Provenance

Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

O'Keeffe, Georgia

Exhibition History

1983
Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, February 3–May 8, 1983; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June 17–August 14, 1983; The Art Institute of Chicago, October 18, 1983–January 3, 1984

Bibliography

1983
Greenough, Sarah, and Juan Hamilton. Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings. Washington, 1983: no. 49.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 428.

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