Grass
1933
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): 14.9 × 18.6 cm (5 7/8 × 7 5/16 in.)
mount: 40.4 × 31.5 cm (15 7/8 × 12 3/8 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.735
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Stieglitz Estate Number
43E
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
1507
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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
Bibliography
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 1507.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: A+1; center in graphite: 1 [triangle] A
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, bottom left verso, in graphite: 43E
Wikidata ID
Q64035612
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
This print is made from the same negative as Key Set number 1506.
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, 1949.778 (inscribed: A1 / A.S.)
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
Collection of Lee Marks & John C. DePrez, Jr., Shelbyville, IN
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1997-146-91
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:
1934, New York (no. 51, as Grass, 1933)