Sunday Afternoon—From My Window, 1111 Madison Avenue, Looking South

probably 1901, printed 1929/1932

Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to image): 8.7 × 10.9 cm (3 7/16 × 4 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1949.3.262

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    126A

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    276

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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. 29.

2002

  • Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 276.

Inscriptions

by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, upper center verso, in graphite: Sunday Afternoon— / From my Window— / 1111 Madison Ave—Looking South / 1899
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 122 A
by later hand, on mount, upper right verso, in red pencil: C

Wikidata ID

Q64034771

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

Stieglitz and his wife Emmy lived at 1111 Madison Avenue from 1898 to 1918.

Other Collections

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

Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York

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 1932, New York (no. 40, as Madison Ave.—82nd St., 1901)

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