From My Window at the Shelton, North, 1931

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Remarks

Based on the appearance of the Hotel and Industrial Mart at 515 Madison Avenue (left background), which was completed in late summer 1931, this photograph and Key Set number 1388 were made in May or June 1931 (see Photographic Views of New York, 1870s–1970s, nos. 908.C2–C3 and 509.B1).

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:

National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Ph-146

Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1949-18-70

Other Collections

A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2008.40.2050

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1987.1100.11

Lifetime Publications

A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:

E. M. Benson, “Alfred Stieglitz: The Man and the Book,” American Magazine of Art 28 (January 1935): 37 (ill., New York, 1932)

Inscription

by later hand, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 1C

Provenance

Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.

Exhibition History

2010

Alfred Stieglitz's New York, South Street Seaport Museum, New York, 2010–2011

Bibliography

2002

Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 1387.

2010

Alfred Stieglitz New York. Exh. cat. South Street Seaport Museum, New York, 2010: no. 33.

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