Black Forest Girl

1894, printed 1929/1934

Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

Alfred Stieglitz

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to image): 21.2 x 15.8 cm (8 3/8 x 6 1/4 in.)
    mount: 34.5 x 27.1 cm (13 9/16 x 10 11/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1949.3.164

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    59D

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    190

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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. 190.

Inscriptions

by later hand, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: E

Wikidata ID

Q64034723

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

The title is taken from the checklist for Stieglitz’s 1934 exhibition.

For more information about this photograph, see Key Set number 188.

For Stieglitz's description of Gutach, where this view was made, see Key Set number 171.

Other Collections

A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):

Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1982-94-5

The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, 1999.20.2

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