The Asphalt Paver: New York
1892/1893, printed 1913
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
photogravure
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 14.1 × 17.7 cm (5 9/16 × 6 15/16 in.)
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Accession
1949.3.1280.8
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Copyright
Image courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Key Set Number
74
Associated Artworks
See all 5 artworksCamera Work: Vol.11: Numbers 41, 42/43, 44, and Special Supplement
Alfred Stieglitz
1913
A Snapshot, Paris [horse]
Alfred Stieglitz
1911
Portrait—S.R.
Alfred Stieglitz
1904
Alfred Stieglitz
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Bibliography
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 74.
Wikidata ID
Q64037841
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
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:
George Eastman Museum, Rochester, 83:0660:0033 [lantern slide] (inscribed: 20. An Impression)
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 331.1987
Location unknown [carbon]
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:
1897, London, R.P.S. (no. 440, as An Impression, lantern slide)
1903, Cleveland (no. 5, as Asphalt Paver)
1924, New York (no. 57, as The Asphalt Paver, 1892)
1932, New York (no. 33, as Asphalt Paver, 1895)
Lifetime Publications
A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
Camera Work 41 (January 1913), pl. 3 (ill., The Asphalt Paver: New York, 1892)
Note
Image courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art