Herbert J. Seligmann
1921
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
palladium print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 23.7 × 18.9 cm (9 5/16 × 7 7/16 in.)
sheet: 25.2 × 20.2 cm (9 15/16 × 7 15/16 in.)
mount: 55.8 × 46 cm (21 15/16 × 18 1/8 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.465
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Stieglitz Estate Number
85B
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Key Set Number
704
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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. 704.
Inscriptions
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left, in graphite: Treated by Steichen 1949
by later hand, center verso, in graphite: K / 85 B; on mount, lower left verso: 85 B
Wikidata ID
Q64034991
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
Critic, poet, essayist, and photographer Herbert J. Seligmann was a close friend and associate of Stieglitz from the late 1910s through the 1920s. In the 1920s he transcribed numerous conversations and remarks by Stieglitz and published them in Alfred Stieglitz Talking (1966).
“Have a very good print of you. Don’t know whether it is a ‘portrait’ or not. It’s a phase at any rate” (Stieglitz to Herbert Seligmann, 4 August 1921 [YCAL]).
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
New York Public Library, Herbert J. Seligmann Papers
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:
1923, New York (no. 68, as Herbert J. Seligmann, 1921)
1932, New York (no. 81, as Herbert J. Seligmann, 1923)