Hedwig Stieglitz
1921/1922
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 11.2 × 9.1 cm (4 7/16 × 3 9/16 in.)
mount: 33 × 26.8 cm (13 × 10 9/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.475
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Stieglitz Estate Number
202B
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Key Set Number
693
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
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. 104.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 693.
Inscriptions
by later hand, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: 202 B
Wikidata ID
Q64035014
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
This portrait and Key Set number 692 were made on the porch of the farmhouse at Lake George, where the Stieglitz family moved in the late summer of 1920.
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, 1949.732