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

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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. 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

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

This photogravure was produced as part of an advertisement for Goerz lenses.

Note

Image courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art


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