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Sarah Greenough, “Alfred Stieglitz/From the Back-Window—291—Wall Closing In/1916,” Alfred Stieglitz Key Set, NGA Online Editions, https://purl.org/nga/collection/artobject/35553 (accessed March 28, 2024).

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Key Set Entry

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Remarks

For more information about this photograph, see Key Set number 426.

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:

possibly 1921, New York (no. 53, as Wall Closing In, 1915, from the series “From the Back-Window—291”)

Inscription

by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, center verso, in graphite: 1916

by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 96 B

Provenance

Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

O'Keeffe, Georgia

Exhibition History

1958
Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, March 16–April 27, 1958

Bibliography

1958
Bry, Doris. Exhibition of Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1958: no. 26.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 427.

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