Marina

1887, printed 1895/1896

Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    platinum print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to image): 15.2 × 11 cm (6 × 4 5/16 in.)
    page size: 33.8 × 27 cm (13 5/16 × 10 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1949.3.32

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    65E

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    44

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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. 44.

Inscriptions

by Alfred Stieglitz, on interleaving tissue, lower right, in graphite: Marina / 1887

Wikidata ID

Q64037645

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

For information about Stieglitz's trip to Chioggia, where this photograph was made, see Key Set number 39.

For more information about this photograph, see Key Set number 42.

Stieglitz Collections

A corresponding print was given to the following institution(s) by Alfred Stieglitz during his lifetime, or was received or acquired from the estate:

George Eastman Museum, Rochester, 83:0660:0014 [lantern slide] (inscribed: Marina / 1892)

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:

1891, Hartford (no. 85, as Marina (Venice), Outdoor Study of Head)
1891, Vienna (no. 493, as “Marina”)
1892, New York, The Society of Amateur Photographers of New York (as Marina (Venice), lantern slide)
1892, Boston (no. 328, as Marina)
1893, Philadelphia (no. 512, as Marina, platinum)

Lifetime Publications

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

“The Progress of Amateur Photography—Some Remarkable Specimens of Figure Work,” Frank Leslie’s Weekly 75 (9 January 1892): 402 (ill., Marina)

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