Artwork overview
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Medium
platinum print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 24.5 x 19.5 cm (9 5/8 x 7 11/16 in.)
sheet: 25.4 x 20.2 cm (10 x 7 15/16 in.) -
Accession Number
1949.3.341
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Stieglitz Estate Number
51E
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Key Set Number
454
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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. 454.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: Becky Edelson / 1913 / Exhibition 1921
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 51 E
Wikidata ID
Q64034853
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
Edelson was a well-known anarchist agitator and younger colleague of Emma Goldman.
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:
1921, New York (no. 42, as Becky Edelson, 1917)