Florence Cane
1922
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): 24.2 × 19.3 cm (9 1/2 × 7 5/8 in.)
mount: 56.3 × 46.4 cm (22 3/16 × 18 1/4 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.483
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Stieglitz Estate Number
82A
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Key Set Number
733
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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. 733.
Inscriptions
by Doris Bry, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 82 - A
Wikidata ID
Q64035031
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
A painter who lived in Westport, Connecticut, Florence Cane and her husband Melville were supporters of Stieglitz, O’Keeffe, and Arthur Dove. Her own paintings were exhibited at the Anderson Galleries in 1922.
“Weather has been glorious.—Plenty of sun to permit printing quite a bit.—And some of the prints are ready for mounting.—And some are truly beautiful. A portrait I did of Georgia I did on the same day I tried Florence Cane is quite extraordinary” (Stieglitz to Paul Rosenfeld, 22 July 1922 [YCAL]).
A variant of this photograph was reproduced in Vanity Fair 18 (July 1922), 50.