The Swimming Lesson
1906, printed 1911
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
photogravure
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 14.8 × 23 cm (5 13/16 × 9 1/16 in.)
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Accession
1949.3.1278.39
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Copyright
Image courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Key Set Number
307
Associated Artworks
See all 16 artworksCamera 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. 307.
Wikidata ID
Q64037831
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
Kitty and an unknown man (possibly Stieglitz) are depicted here.
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. 436, as The Swimming Lesson, Lake George, 1905, bromide)
1913, New York (no. 20, as The Swimming Lesson, Lake George, 1905)
Lifetime Publications
A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
Camera Work 36 (October 1911): pl. 11 (ill., The Swimming Lesson, 1906)
Note
Image courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art