The Wanderer's Return

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): 21 × 15.4 cm (8 1/4 × 6 1/16 in.)
    page size: 33.8 × 27 cm (13 5/16 × 10 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1949.3.37

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    60B

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    43

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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. 43.

Inscriptions

by Alfred Stieglitz, on interleaving tissue, lower right, in graphite: The Wanderer's Return / 1887

Wikidata ID

Q64037669

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.

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