Alfred Maurer
1915, printed 1929/1937
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): 22.6 × 15.3 cm (8 7/8 × 6 in.)
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Accession
1949.3.361
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Stieglitz Estate Number
52D
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
397

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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. 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