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): 24.1 x 19.1 cm (9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.)
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Accession Number
1949.3.345
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Stieglitz Estate Number
80E
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Key Set Number
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1949
O'Keeffe, Georgia. "Stieglitz: His Pictures Collected Him." New York Times Magazine (11 December 1949): 25.
1958
Wright, Frederick S. Arthur G. Dove. Exh. cat. Art Galleries, University of California, Los Angeles, 1958: 7.
1967
Arthur Dove: The Years of Collage. Exh. cat. University of Maryland Art Gallery: 43.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 855.
Inscriptions
by later hand, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 80 E
Wikidata ID
Q64034857
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
Dove is depicted in front of his painting Gear, c. 1922 (Morgan 22.2).
On 18 July 1923 Stieglitz wrote to Arthur Dove that Rosenfeld was “writing his book & chapter on you.” Stieglitz continued that he had just gotten the “new negatives of you . . . you moved in the most interesting one . . . have a profile which is ghastly in a way but an addition. There is a full face which might be used for the book. . . .The first shot we made with your painting as ‘background.’ It just misses fine. Is photographically very fine” (Arthur Dove Papers, AAA).
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, SC 97.88 (inscribed: With Permission An American Place / Arthur G. Dove (Photo by Alfred Stieglitz) / This photo must be returned to Alfred Stieglitz. 509 Madison Ave. N.Y. City)
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1967-285-49
Lifetime Publications
A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
Paul Rosenfeld, Port of New York: Essays on Fourteen American Moderns (New York, 1924): 167 (ill., Arthur G. Dove)
Katherine Dreier, Modern Art [exh. cat., Société Anonyme] (New York, 1926): 95 (ill., untitled)
Waldo Frank et al., America & Alfred Stieglitz (New York, 1934): pl. 23b (ill., Arthur Dove, 1915)