Artwork overview
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Medium
platinum print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 24.1 x 18.9 cm (9 1/2 x 7 7/16 in.)
sheet: 25.2 x 20.1 cm (9 15/16 x 7 15/16 in.) -
Accession Number
1949.3.367
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Stieglitz Estate Number
90E
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Key Set Number
420
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1958
Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, March 16–April 27, 1958
2002
Alfred Stieglitz: Known and Unknown, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, June 2–September 2, 2002; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 6, 2002–January 5, 2003
Bibliography
1958
Bry, Doris. Exhibition of Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1958: 20.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 420.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, lower center, in graphite: 1915 from Backwindow, 291 —; center left verso: 1915-1
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 90 E
by later hand, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: 1
Wikidata ID
Q64034879
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
This photograph was made on April 3, 1915, when an improbable Easter weekend blizzard dropped more than ten inches of snow on New York.
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1870.2001 (inscribed: From the Back Window at “291” / April 3–1915. / To Marie / from AS / Apr. 24–1916.)
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:
possibly 1921, New York (no. 45, as Buildings in Snow, 1915, from the series “From the Back-Window—291”)