The Blizzard, New York
1893, printed 1929/1932
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Alfred Stieglitz
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): 8.6 x 10.2 cm (3 3/8 x 4 in.)
mount: 31.5 x 24.9 cm (12 3/8 x 9 13/16 in.) -
Accession Number
1949.3.89
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Stieglitz Estate Number
129B
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Key Set Number
88
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1958
Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, March 16–April 27, 1958
Bibliography
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 88.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, upper center verso, in graphite: The Blizzard, N.Y. / 1893
by later hand, on mount, lower right verso, in graphite: 015; upper left verso, in square: 1; lower left verso, circled: 4; upper right verso, in red pencil, circled: D
Wikidata ID
Q64034679
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:
possibly 1932, New York (no. 39, as Fifth Ave.—Winter, 1894)
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): 262 (ill., Fifth Avenue, During a Blizzard)