Singer Building from Hudson River
1910, printed 1929/1934
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 9.2 x 11.5 cm (3 5/8 x 4 1/2 in.)
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Accession
1949.3.310
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Stieglitz Estate Number
130C
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
340
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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. 39.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 340.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, center verso, in graphite: Ex 1932
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 130 C
Wikidata ID
Q64034820
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
The title is taken from the checklist for Stieglitz’s 1932 exhibition.
This work and Key Set numbers 337, 338, and 339 were made from the New Jersey side of the Hudson River looking toward lower Manhattan.
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:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, YCAL MSS 85, box 122, folder 2450
Library of Congress, Washington, PH-14 A