Artwork overview
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Medium
palladium print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 18.9 × 23.3 cm (7 7/16 × 9 3/16 in.)
sheet: 20.2 × 25.1 cm (7 15/16 × 9 7/8 in.)
mount: 56.1 × 46.4 cm (22 1/16 × 18 1/4 in.) -
Accession Number
1949.3.434
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Stieglitz Estate Number
39E
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Key Set Number
603
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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. 603.
Inscriptions
by Doris Bry, on mount, lower left, in graphite: Treated by Steichen 6/50
by later hand, lower left verso, in graphite: 39 E
Wikidata ID
Q64034949
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
“I have been developing nearly all day. Plates & films (not many) I exposed two months ago of Dorothy True & Georgia. The only exposures I’ve made since last October.” Stieglitz to Paul Strand, 8 June 1919 (YCAL and CCP).
Dorothy True and O’Keeffe had studied together at Columbia University Teachers College.