Old and New New York

1910, printed 1911

Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    photogravure

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 20.3 × 15.8 cm (8 × 6 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1949.3.1278.34

  • Copyright

    Image courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art

  • Key Set Number

    344

Associated Artworks

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Camera Work: Vol.9: Numbers 33, 34/35, 36

Alfred Stieglitz

1911

The Steerage

Alfred Stieglitz

1907

City of Ambition

Alfred Stieglitz

1910

Alfred Stieglitz

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1992

  • Stieglitz in the Darkroom, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, October 4, 1992–February 14, 1993

Bibliography

2002

  • Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 344.

Wikidata ID

Q64037817

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

The view looks east from 34th Street and Fifth Avenue. The catalogue for Stieglitz’s 1944 exhibition at Philadelphia identifies the figure in the foreground as Max Weber.

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:

1910, Buffalo (no. 443, as Old and New New York, 34th Street, 1910, photogravure)
1913, New York (no. 23, as Old and New New York, 1910)
1944, Philadelphia (no. 22, as New York Old and New, 1910)

Lifetime Publications

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

Camera Work 36 (October 1911): pl. 6 (ill., Old and New New York, 1910)

Note

Image courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art


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