Georgia Engelhard, Georgia O'Keeffe, Selma Stieglitz Schubart, and Joseph Obermeyer
1920/1922
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): 8.6 x 13.6 cm (3 3/8 x 5 3/8 in.)
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Accession Number
1949.3.444
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Stieglitz Estate Number
199A
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Key Set Number
631
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
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
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 631.
Inscriptions
by later hand, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: 199 A
Wikidata ID
Q64034961
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
Selma Stieglitz Schubart was Alfred’s younger sister.
Joseph Obermeyer and Stieglitz studied together at the Technische Hochschule, Berlin, and on their return to the United States they went into business together at the Heliochrome Engraving Company. Obermeyer was the brother of Stieglitz’s first wife Emmy.
This photograph and Key Set numbers 630 and 632 were all made from the same negative.