Waldo Frank
1920
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
palladium print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 23.8 × 18.9 cm (9 3/8 × 7 7/16 in.)
sheet: 25.3 × 20.2 cm (9 15/16 × 7 15/16 in.)
mount: 56.3 × 46.3 cm (22 3/16 × 18 1/4 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.500
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Stieglitz Estate Number
32C
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Key Set Number
643
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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
2001
Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2001
Bibliography
1983
Greenough, Sarah, and Juan Hamilton. Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings. Washington, 1983: no. 101, pl. 49.
1990
Lowe, Sue Davidson. "Taken Lightly." Art & Antiques (Summer 1990): repro. 109.
2000
Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001: no. 95.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 643.
Inscriptions
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left, in graphite: Treated by Steichen 1949
Wikidata ID
Q64035064
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
Stieglitz wrote to Waldo Frank several times regarding this photograph and others made in the summer of 1920: “I am mounting the summer’s work—Your portrait is really fine & was mounted this morning” (15 December 1920 [YCAL]). “I have been trying to get a complete expression of your ‘Apple Portrait.’—And invariably I miss it” (8 August 1921 [YCAL]).
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, 1949.722
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 28.128.2
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
Waldo Frank Papers, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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 (nos. 86–88, as Waldo Frank, 1920)
1932, New York (no. 82, as Waldo Frank, 1922)