November Days
1887, 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): 20.1 × 15.7 cm (7 15/16 × 6 3/16 in.)
page size: 33.8 × 27 cm (13 5/16 × 10 5/8 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.49
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Stieglitz Estate Number
58A
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Key Set Number
53
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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. 53.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on interleaving tissue, lower right, in graphite: November Days / 1887
Wikidata ID
Q64037650
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
The catalogue for the 1899 Camera Club of New York exhibition notes that this photograph won silver medals in England, 1888, Vienna, 1888, and Milan, 1894.
The American Amateur Photographer 3:12 (December 1891), 469, notes that “‘November Days’ is a view of a road near Munich, Bavaria, taken with a [Steinheil Aplanat] lens, an f-16 diaphragm, exposure one-half minute, towards evening, on an Obernetter plate, developed with ferrous-oxalate.”
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, 83:0660:0027 [lantern slide] (inscribed: November Days, [Munich 1886])
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
Collection of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg, New York (inscribed: November Days / 1895 / Alfred Stieglitz)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2006.3.1.7
Location unknown (inscribed: Alfred Stieglitz / 1886)
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:
1892, New York, The Society of Amateur Photographers of New York (as November Days (Munich), lantern slide)
1892, Boston (no. 325, as November Days)
1895, Paris (no. 576, as Novembre)
1895, Bridgeport (as November Days)
1897, New York, Knickerbocker (as November, lantern slide)
1899, New York (no. 10, as November Days, 1885–1887, platinum direct)
1934, New York (no. 1, as Outskirts of Munich, 1884)
1942, New York (as November Days, Munich, 1884)
Lifetime Publications
A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
The American Amateur Photographer 3:12 (December 1891): opp. 485 (ill., November Days, photogravure)
The Photographic Times 23 (21 July 1893): 389 (ill., November Days, photogravure)
Ralph Flint, “What is 291?” The Christian Science Monitor Weekly Magazine (17 November 1937): 5 (ill, November Days—Outskirts of Munich, 1884)