The City of Ambition

1910, printed 1929/1934

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): 10.8 x 8.2 cm (4 1/4 x 3 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1949.3.309

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    130D

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    343

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1992

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

Bibliography

2002

  • Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 343.

Inscriptions

by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 130 D

Wikidata ID

Q64034819

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

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 Museum of Modern Art, New York, 22.1950

Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1949-18-47

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 52.1793

Other Collections

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

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 2018.84.23

Location unknown

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