Old Woman with Spinning Wheel
1894, printed 1929/1934
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print mounted on paperboard
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 22.5 x 16.7 cm (8 7/8 x 6 9/16 in.)
mount: 34.5 x 27.1 cm (13 9/16 x 10 11/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.179
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Stieglitz Estate Number
64B
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Key Set Number
198
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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. 198.
Inscriptions
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 64B
Wikidata ID
Q64034728
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 197.
For Stieglitz's description of Gutach, where this view was made, see Key Set number 171.
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:
Library of Congress, Washington, PH-06 A
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 49.55.2
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 52.1789 (inscribed: O3 / Frame 3)
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, PHO 2003 8 1 (inscribed: For Georgia / Alfred / Lake George / July 1935)
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, E.885-2003