Artwork overview
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Medium
platinum print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 23 x 18.3 cm (9 1/16 x 7 3/16 in.)
sheet: 25.3 x 20.2 cm (9 15/16 x 7 15/16 in.) -
Accession Number
1949.3.370
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Stieglitz Estate Number
12A
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Key Set Number
418
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1989
On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: 150 Years of Photography, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May 7–July 30, 1989; The Art Institute of Chicago, September 16–November 26, 1989; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 21, 1989–February 25, 1990
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
2015
In Light of the Past: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Collecting Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May 3–July 26, 2015
Bibliography
1989
Greenough, Sarah, Joel Snyder, David Travis, and Colin Westerbeck. On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington; Art Institute of Chicago, 1989: pl. 192.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 418.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, center verso, in graphite: 1915 / from "291"
by later hand, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 12 A
Wikidata ID
Q64034882
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
For information about the buildings in this view, see Key Set number 417.
Stieglitz Collections
A corresponding print was given to the following institution(s) by Alfred Stieglitz during his lifetime, or was received or acquired from the estate:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 49.55.35
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. 46, as Buildings, Night, Snow, 1915, from the series “From the Back-Window—291”)