Wrinkles
1894, 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): 19.5 × 15.3 cm (7 11/16 × 6 in.)
page size: 33.8 × 27 cm (13 5/16 × 10 5/8 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.178
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Stieglitz Estate Number
64B
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
197
Associated Artworks
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2002
Alfred Stieglitz: Known and Unknown, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, June 2–September 2, 2002; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 6, 2002–January 5, 2003
Bibliography
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 197.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on interleaving tissue, lower right, in graphite: Wrinkles / 1894
Wikidata ID
Q64037643
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
For Stieglitz's description of Gutach, where this view was made, see Key Set number 171.
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2006.3.1.19
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:
possibly 1896, New York, The Camera Club of New York (as Old Age, lantern slide)
1897, London, R.P.S. (no. 440, as Study for a Picture, lantern slide)
1934, New York (no. 15, as Old Woman with Spinning Wheel, 1894)
Lifetime Publications
A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
The American Annual of Photography and Photographic Times Almanac for 1897 (New York, 1896): 31 (ill., Study for a Picture)
W. I. Lincoln Adams, In Nature’s Image (New York, 1898): 36 (ill., Study for a Picture)
The Photographic Times 31 (July 1899): 330 (ill., Study for a Picture)
Charles H. Caffin, “The New Photography,” Munsey’s Magazine 27 (August 1902): 730 (ill., Old Age)