From My Window at the Shelton, North, 1930/1931

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Remarks

This photograph and Key Set number 1356 depict the RCA Victor Building, which became the General Electric Building shortly after its completion in early 1931 (hereafter referred to as the GE Building). Based on the composition and the small 4 × 5-inch format, these two images were probably made at the same time as Key Set numbers 1350–1354.

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:

1932, New York (nos. 10–16, as From my window at The Shelton, north, 1931)

Inscription

by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount: center verso, in graphite: Ex 1932

by later hands, on mount, upper center verso, in graphite: 11; lower left verso: 136C; upper right verso, in blue pencil, circled: B

Provenance

Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.

Bibliography

1996

Smith, Joel. "How Stieglitz Came to Photograph Cityscapes." History of Photography 20, no. 4 (Winter 1996): 325.

2002

Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 1355.

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