Barn—Lake George

1922

Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to image): 23.6 x 18.9 cm (9 5/16 x 7 7/16 in.)
    mount: 56.9 x 46.2 cm (22 3/8 x 18 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1949.3.478

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    44B

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    789

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1958

  • Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, March 16–April 27, 1958

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. 105.

2002

  • Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 789.

Inscriptions

by later hand, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite, in square: + / 1; center verso: 16; upper right verso, circled: i; lower left verso: Box 100 / 44 B; lower left verso: 047

Wikidata ID

Q64035017

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

See Key Set number 780.

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, 1949.779

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 57.1950

Lifetime Publications

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

Waldo Frank et al., America & Alfred Stieglitz (New York, 1934): pl. 32a (ill., Barn—Lake George, 1920)

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