The Rag Picker
1892/1893, 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): 8.7 x 7.7 cm (3 7/16 x 3 1/16 in.)
mount: 31.7 x 24.9 cm (12 1/2 x 9 13/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.85
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Stieglitz Estate Number
125E
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Key Set Number
76
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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. 24.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 76.
Inscriptions
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 125E
Wikidata ID
Q64034676
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1997-146-99 (inscribed: The Ragpicker—Centre St. / N.Y. 1892 / Alfred Stieglitz / 1936)
Location unknown [platinum]
Lifetime Publications
A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
John Corbin, “The Twentieth Century City,” Scribner’s Magazine 33:3 (March 1903): 269 (ill., Prosperity)
Twice a Year 1 (Fall–Winter 1938): 96 (ill., The Ragpicker: New York, 1892)