On Lake Thun, Switzerland
1886, printed 1929/1934
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 8.1 x 10.5 cm (3 3/16 x 4 1/8 in.)
mount: 31.7 x 25.2 cm (12 1/2 x 9 15/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.55
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Stieglitz Estate Number
108A
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Key Set Number
28
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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. 28.
Inscriptions
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 108A
Wikidata ID
Q64034663
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
This photograph was made at Lake Thun, near Mürren, Switzerland.
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, 83:0660:0020 [lantern slide]
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1997-146-109 (inscribed: For Dorothy Norman / C.C. / “On Lake Thun—Switzerland” / 1894 / On Lake Thun—Switzerland—1894 / Alfred Stieglitz / 1936)
Location unknown [lantern slide]
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:
probably 1889, Philadelphia (as The Approaching Storm, Lake Como)
probably 1897, New York, Knickerbocker (as The Approaching Storm, lantern slide)
1897, London, R.P.S. (no. 440, as Lake Thun--before a Storm, lantern slide)
Lifetime Publications
A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
Die Photographische Rundschau 3 (July 1889): between 222 and 223 (ill., Herrannahender Sturm)
Marmaduke Humphrey, “Triumphs in Amateur Photography,” Godey’s Magazine 135 (December 1897): 590 (ill., Before the Storm, Lake Thun)
Robert Reyburn, “Photo-Micrography with Simple Apparatus,” The American Annual of Photography and Photographic Times Almanac for 1898 (New York, 1897): 237 (ill., The Approaching Storm, Lake Thun)