The Steerage

1907, 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): 11.3 x 9.2 cm (4 7/16 x 3 5/8 in.)
    mount: 34.3 x 27.6 cm (13 1/2 x 10 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1949.3.291

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    125D

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    314

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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

1992

  • Stieglitz in the Darkroom, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, October 4, 1992–February 14, 1993

Bibliography

1958

  • Bry, Doris. Exhibition of Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1958: 20.

2002

  • Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 314.

Inscriptions

by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, center verso, in graphite: Ex 1932
by later hand, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: 1; by later hand, on mount, upper right verso, in blue pencil: C; by later hand, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 8; by later hand, lower right verso, in graphite: 03

Wikidata ID

Q64034801

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

For more information about this photograph, see Key Set number 310.

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:

The Art Institute of Chicago, 1949.705

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 49.55.5

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 50.826

National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Ph-156

Other Collections

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

The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1988.571

Edwynn Houk Gallery

Private collection

Private collection

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 2016.101.431 [platinum]

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