Italian Mason, Bellagio
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): 17.3 x 9.5 cm (6 13/16 x 3 3/4 in.)
page size: 34.8 x 27.2 cm (13 11/16 x 10 11/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.34
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Stieglitz Estate Number
69E
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
38
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1983
Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, February 3–May 8, 1983; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June 17–August 14, 1983; The Art Institute of Chicago, October 18, 1983–January 3, 1984
Bibliography
1983
Greenough, Sarah, and Juan Hamilton. Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings. Washington, 1983: no. 2, pl. 5.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 38.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on interleaving tissue, lower right, in graphite: Italian Mason, / (Bellagio, 1887).
Wikidata ID
Q64037687
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
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, New York (no. 242, as Portrait of an Italian Laborer)
Lifetime Publications
A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
The American Amateur Photographer 7:7 (July 1895): 311 (ill., untitled)