At Anchor

1894, 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): 16.5 × 21.4 cm (6 1/2 × 8 7/16 in.)
    page size: 27 × 33.8 cm (10 5/8 × 13 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1949.3.212

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    65A

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    231

Associated Artworks

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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. 231.

Inscriptions

by Alfred Stieglitz, on interleaving tissue, lower right, in graphite: At Anchor / 1894

Wikidata ID

Q64037649

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

For Stieglitz’s description of boats landing in Katwijk, see Key Set number 225.

Other Collections

A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):

National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2006.3.1.25

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:

1896, Toronto (silver medal)
1896, Syracuse (no. 247, as At Anchor)
1899, New York (nos. 57, 83, as At Anchor, 1894, platinum direct, and 1894–1899, bichromate of gum)
1899, London (no. 8, as At Anchor)
1900, New York (no. 98, as At Anchor)
1900, Philadelphia (no. 162, as At Anchor, gum bichromate)
1902, New York (no. 134, as At Anchor, 1894)
1903, Denver (no. 144, as At Anchor)
1908, Toronto (no. 92, as At Anchor)
1934, New York (no. 21, as At Anchor, gelatin silver)

Lifetime Publications

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

Alfred Stieglitz and Louis H. Schubart, “Two Artists' Haunts,” The Photographic Times 26 (January 1895): 9 (ill., At Anchor, Katwyk)

The Amateur Photographer 21 (1 February 1895): 66 (ill., At Anchor)

The American Amateur Photographer 7:7 (July 1895): opp. 299 (ill., At Anchor)

F. W. Crane, “Recent Amateur Photography,” Godey’s Magazine 131 (September 1895): 242 (ill., At Anchor [Katwyk, Holland])

“Photographs from the Camera Club Exhibition,” New-York Tribune (14 May 1899): illustrated supplement, 10 (ill., At Anchor)

Theodore Dreiser, “A Master of Photography,” Success Magazine 2 (10 June 1899): 471 (ill., At Anchor)

Alfred Stieglitz, “Pictorial Photography,” Scribner’s Magazine 26:5 (November 1899): 535 (ill., At Anchor)

Camera Notes 4:4 (April 1901): 241 (ill., At Anchor)

Charles H. Caffin, “Photography as a Fine Art. II.—Alfred Stieglitz and His Work,” Everybody’s Magazine 4 (April 1901): 359 (ill., At Anchor, 1894)

Charles H. Caffin, Photography as a Fine Art (New York, 1901): 23 (ill., At Anchor)


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