Grass and Frost
1934
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): 18.9 × 24.2 cm (7 7/16 × 9 1/2 in.)
mount: 53.3 × 42.4 cm (21 × 16 11/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.737
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Stieglitz Estate Number
16B
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Key Set Number
1556
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1989
On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: 150 Years of Photography, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May 7–July 30, 1989; The Art Institute of Chicago, September 16–November 26, 1989; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 21, 1989–February 25, 1990
Bibliography
1989
Greenough, Sarah, Joel Snyder, David Travis, and Colin Westerbeck. On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington; Art Institute of Chicago, 1989: pl. 258.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 1556.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, upper center verso, in graphite: 16 5/8 X 20 15/16; center right verso, in graphite, inverted: Back
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, bottom left verso, in graphite: 16B
Wikidata ID
Q64035621
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
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, 1949.768
Library of Congress, Washington, PH-54 B
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. 54, as Grass and Frost, 1934)