Hedwig Stieglitz
1907
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
-
Medium
Autochrome
-
Credit Line
-
Dimensions
image: 14 x 10.7 cm (5 1/2 x 4 3/16 in.)
mat: 39.9 x 29.7 cm (15 11/16 x 11 11/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.301
-
Key Set Number
320
Alfred Stieglitz
Curious for more Alfred Stieglitz scholarship?
Discover over 1,000 artworks that the artist’s wife Georgia O’Keeffe termed his “Key Set” of prize photographs. Museum scholars have illuminated each work, his career, practices, and lifetime achievements.
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. 320.
Inscriptions
on verso of mount, by later hand, lower right in graphite: His Mother by A. Stieglitz 1907
Wikidata ID
Q64034811
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
Born in Offenbach, Germany, Hedwig Werner immigrated to the United States in the early 1850s and married Edward Stieglitz in 1862. Although the family made fun of her malapropisms, she had a deep love of literature, music, and the visual arts. Of her six children, her first-born, Alfred, was her favorite.
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:
possibly 1907, New York (no. 16, as Sunlight Portrait, Autochrome)