Alfred Maurer

1915, printed 1929/1937

Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

Media Options

This object’s media is not available for download. Contact us about image usage.

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to image): 22.6 × 15.3 cm (8 7/8 × 6 in.)

  • Accession

    1949.3.361

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    52D

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

    Learn more
  • Key Set Number

    397

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. 397.

Inscriptions

by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, lower right, in graphite: G1
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 52 D

Wikidata ID

Q64034873

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

In the background of this photograph and Key Set numbers 394, 395, and 396 is Picasso’s charcoal drawing Head of a Man, 1912 (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), exhibited at 291 from 12 to 26 January 1915.

Other Collections

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

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, NPG.99.152


You may be interested in

Loading Results