Before the Tavern
1890, printed 1895/1896
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
platinum print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 11 × 15.3 cm (4 5/16 × 6 in.)
page size: 27.2 × 34.4 cm (10 11/16 × 13 9/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.61
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Stieglitz Estate Number
76A
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Key Set Number
67
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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. 67.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on interleaving tissue, upper right, in graphite: Before the Tavern / 1890
Wikidata ID
Q64037634
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
Stieglitz submitted this image to The Amateur Photographer’s “Travelling Studentship Competition” as Before the Wayside Inn. The journal notes: “all the negatives are un-retouched, and no cloud negatives are used. They have been taken with a Steinheil Aplanat. The plates used include Obernetter, Eosine, Schlenssn, Perulz (eosine), and Lumière. The developers have been pyro and soda and iron, and the whole of the prints have been produced in platinotype” (The Amateur Photographer 12 [18 July 1890], 41).
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:
1890, London, Gallery of the Society of Painters in Water Colours (no. 349, as Before the Wayside Inn)
1891, Hartford (no. 70, as Before the Inn (Near Vienna))
1891, New York, Fourth Annual Joint Exhibition (no. 302, as Before the Wayside Inn)
1891, New York, Society of Amateur Photographers (no. 219, as Before the Wayside Inn)
Lifetime Publications
A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
Alfred Stieglitz, “The Hand Camera—Its Present Importance,” The American Annual of Photography and Photographic Times Almanac for 1897 (New York, 1896): 21 (ill., A Hot Day)
W. I. Lincoln Adams, Sunlight and Shadow (New York, 1897): 71 (ill., A Hot Day)