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): 23.5 × 18.7 cm (9 1/4 × 7 3/8 in.)
mount: 53 × 45.5 cm (20 7/8 × 17 15/16 in.) -
Accession Number
1949.3.493
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Stieglitz Estate Number
93C
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Key Set Number
717
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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. 717.
Inscriptions
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 93 C
Wikidata ID
Q64035050
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
Katharine Dudley was a teacher and artist who may have met O’Keeffe through their association with the Columbia University Teachers College.
“ . . . All day yesterday I tried to make some Palladios. Slaved all day. Some mean negatives. Just three or four—dense—fogged-over. I hate to have any negative beat me. And all summer I’ve been trying to coax these beauties into giving me at least one usable print. The foolishness of it. A silent fight between us. I feel the negatives will have the better of the argument. I am finally letting myself be counted ‘Out.’ It’s just a picture of legs at that—Katharine Dudley’s. And the new Davidson.—Interesting ideas—& a rather new treatment.—Isn’t one a fool?” (Stieglitz to Rebecca Strand, 23 August 1922 [YCAL]).
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:
possibly 1923, New York (nos. 12–15, as Katharine Dudley, 1922)