Icy Night (featured in ad for Goerz lenses)

1898, printed 1903

Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    photogravure

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 12.8 × 15.9 cm (5 1/16 × 6 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1949.3.1270.42

  • Copyright

    Image courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art

  • Key Set Number

    258

Associated Artworks

The Street—Design for a Poster

Alfred Stieglitz

1900

The Flatiron

Alfred Stieglitz

1903

The Hand of Man

Alfred Stieglitz

1902

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. 258.

Inscriptions

by Alfred Stieglitz, upper left, printed: GOERZ; upper right: LENSES; lower left: The original of this celebrated / picture, “Icy Night,” exhib- / ited in the International Ex- / hibitions at London, Paris, / Turin, Brussels, Hamburg, / Philadelphia, etc., etc.,; lower right: was made in January, Eight- / een Hundred and Ninety- / eight, at one a.m., with a / Goerz Lens, Series III., full / opening, and an exposure of / three minutes.

Wikidata ID

Q64037867

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