Self-Portrait, Freienwalde a. O.
1886
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
platinum print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 10.7 x 7.7 cm (4 3/16 x 3 1/16 in.)
page size: 13.6 x 22 cm (5 3/8 x 8 11/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.9
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Stieglitz Estate Number
346C
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
12
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1947
Sweeney, James Johnson. "Stieglitz." Vogue 109 (15 June 1947): 59.
1973
Norman, Dorothy. Alfred Stieglitz: An American Seer. New York, 1973: 27.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 12.
Wikidata ID
Q64034638
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
9. Here’s the man and his grand machine,
Which enables these wonders for to be seen.
With his right hand placed on his pistol,
He held us attentive to his whistle
Now then a cheerful expression!
For more information about the album in which this photograph appears, see Key Set number 3.
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:
The Art Institute of Chicago, 1986.3329 [lantern slide]
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, YCAL MSS 85, box 145, folder 2683