Ploughing

1904, printed 1905

Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    photogravure

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 18.8 × 24.4 cm (7 3/8 × 9 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1949.3.1272.41

  • Copyright

    Image courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art

  • Key Set Number

    295

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1893

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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. 295.

Wikidata ID

Q64037882

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

During his 1904 trip to Europe Stieglitz met up with Heinrich Kühn in Igls, Austria, near Innsbruck, where the two photographed together.

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:

1905, Berlin (as no. 52, In Tirol)
1905, Vienna, Photo Club (no. 55, as Der Ackerbau)
1905, London (no. 127, as Ploughing)
1905, New York, Photo-Secession (no. 84, as In the Tivol [sic])
1906, Cincinnati (no. 64, as In the Tirol)
1906, Philadelphia (no. 119, as In the Tirol)
1906, Paris (no. 622, as Le Labour, Tyrol)
1913, New York (no. 19, as Ploughing, Igls, 1904)
1914, London, R.P.S. (no. 71, as Ploughing)

Lifetime Publications

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

Photographische Rundschau und Photographisches Centralblatt 19 (1905): 174 (ill., In Tirol)

Die Photographische Kunst im Jahre 1905: Ein Jahrbuch für Künstlerische Photographie: 27 (ill., In Tirol)

Note

Image courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art

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