Legs, Lake George, 1920/1922

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Medium

palladium print

Dimensions

image: 23.6 × 19.3 cm (9 5/16 × 7 5/8 in.)

sheet: 25 × 20 cm (9 13/16 × 7 7/8 in.)
mat: 56.3 × 44.1 cm (22 3/16 × 17 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Alfred Stieglitz Collection

Accession Number

1949.3.633

Stieglitz Estate Number

57C

Key Set Number

653

Artists / Makers

Alfred Stieglitz (artist) American, 1864 - 1946

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Key Set Entry

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Remarks

Carl Zigrosser, in a letter to James Johnson Sweeney, 4 April 1947, mentions a Stieglitz photograph of the back of the legs and knees of Mollie Higgins Smith, an artist. (Carl Zigrosser Papers, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia).

Inscription

by Doris Bry, on mount, lower left, in graphite: Treated by Steichen—6/50; by Doris Bry [?], on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 57C

by later hand, center verso, in graphite: K / 57C

Provenance

Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

O'Keeffe, Georgia

Bibliography

2002: Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 653.