From the Back-Window—291—Wall Closing In
1916
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
platinum print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 23.5 × 19 cm (9 1/4 × 7 1/2 in.)
sheet: 25.2 × 20 cm (9 15/16 × 7 7/8 in.)
mount: 50.8 × 35.1 cm (20 × 13 13/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.402
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Stieglitz Estate Number
96B
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
427
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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
Bibliography
1958
Bry, Doris. Exhibition of Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1958: no. 26.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 427.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, center verso, in graphite: 1916
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 96 B
Wikidata ID
Q64034914
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
For more information about this photograph, see Key Set number 426.
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. 53, as Wall Closing In, 1915, from the series “From the Back-Window—291”)