Bly
1920
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
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): 10.4 × 7.8 cm (4 1/8 × 3 1/16 in.)
mount: 34.2 × 26.4 cm (13 7/16 × 10 3/8 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.449
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Stieglitz Estate Number
206C
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
625
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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. 625.
Inscriptions
by later hand, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: 206 C
Wikidata ID
Q64034966
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
Location unknown (inscribed: This is a stray print I found made two or three years ago. The gentleman who appears on the postal with Venus—Now he lives alone near a Mountain Top—near the top of Prospect Mt our highest mountain here. He is a wonder—Always an artist. Knows the soil and the woods—If he were here I’d photograph his hands! —)