Artwork overview
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Medium
Autochrome
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 17.1 × 11.9 cm (6 3/4 × 4 11/16 in.)
overall: 18 × 13 cm (7 1/16 × 5 1/8 in.) -
Accession Number
1949.3.298
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Key Set Number
317
Alfred Stieglitz
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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. 317.
Wikidata ID
Q64034808
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
A founding member of the Photo-Secession, Frank Eugene (born Frank Eugene Smith in New York City) studied painting at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. After his return to the United States in 1894 he worked as a stage designer and portrait painter and learned how to photograph. In 1907 Eugene was appointed to the staff of the Institute of Photography in Munich-Schwabing and in 1913 to the chair of nature photography at the Royal Academy of Graphic Arts, Leipzig.