Car 2F-77-77
1935
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): 19.5 × 24.5 cm (7 11/16 × 9 5/8 in.)
mount: 53 × 42.2 cm (20 7/8 × 16 5/8 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.782
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Key Set Number
1586
Alfred Stieglitz
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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
2002
Alfred Stieglitz: Known and Unknown, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, June 2–September 2, 2002; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 6, 2002–January 5, 2003
Bibliography
1983
Greenough, Sarah, and Juan Hamilton. Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings. Washington, 1983: no. 128.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 1586.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, lower right, in graphite: G2 [2 in subscript]; on mount, upper right, in graphite, circled: swell Plus / A-1.
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 15B
Wikidata ID
Q64035748
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, 1949.766
George Eastman Museum, 74:0052:0093 (inscribed: A-1Z)
Library of Congress, Washington, PH-57 B (inscribed: A2)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 328.1942 (inscribed: Car 2F-77-77 / 1935 / O’K’s Car 1935)
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1949-18-74 (inscribed: G extra)
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
The Bluff Collection
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:
1942, New York (as Car 2F 77-77, Lake George, 1935)