Military Parade, New York
1918, printed 1924/1937
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Alfred Stieglitz
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): 9.3 × 11.7 cm (3 11/16 × 4 5/8 in.)
mat: 33.4 × 26.6 cm (13 1/8 × 10 1/2 in.) -
Accession Number
1949.3.414
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Stieglitz Estate Number
OK 129C
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Key Set Number
602
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1989
David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence, RI, 1989
Bibliography
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 602.
Inscriptions
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 129 C
by later hand, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 2
Wikidata ID
Q64034927
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
On a snowy 22 February 1918, during World War I, ten thousand US National Army draftees training at Camp Upton on Long Island came to New York and paraded down Fifth Avenue. Stieglitz wrote to O’Keeffe, “The scene was impressive—not so much because of the soldiers—but because of the black masses of people lining the Avenue + the silently falling snow on that mass—gradually turning everything into a great mass of moving black + whiteness . . . Our window gives us a perfect view of the Avenue” (YCAL).
In Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set, published in 2002, this photograph was incorrectly associated with a World War I victory parade and misdated “probably 1919.”