Artwork overview
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Medium
palladium print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 17.8 × 22.8 cm (7 × 9 in.)
sheet: 20.1 × 25.2 cm (7 15/16 × 9 15/16 in.)
mount: 51.5 × 41.2 cm (20 1/4 × 16 1/4 in.) -
Accession Number
1949.3.497
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Stieglitz Estate Number
55C
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Key Set Number
637
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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. 637.
Inscriptions
by Doris Bry, center verso, in graphite: K / 55 C / 1920; on mount, lower left: Treated by Steichen - 6/50; lower left verso: 55 C
Wikidata ID
Q64035058
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
“I think I have a few real things of the Engelhard kid which will make you smile.—Semi-humorous & perfect photography” (Stieglitz to Paul Strand, 9 October 1920 [YCAL and CCP]).