Waldo Frank

1920

Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to image): 24 x 19.2 cm (9 7/16 x 7 9/16 in.)
    mount: 55.8 x 45.6 cm (21 15/16 x 17 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1949.3.501

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    32D

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  • Key Set Number

    642

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1993

  • Stabb, Martin S. "Waldo Frank: A Very Unusual Yanqui." Review: Latin American Literature and Arts 47 (Fall 1993): 87–88, repro. 87.

2002

  • Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 642.

Inscriptions

by Doris Bry, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 32-D

Wikidata ID

Q64035068

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

“I began the day with mounting a print of you. The one sitting in the hammock.—The first I made. And it looks very well.—You are to have it.—So, there are three A+1 prints for you.—I don’t know how you will like them. How your friends will like them.—The three are different.—Each you.—Each an achievement in photography.—Very direct.—Very simple. —” (Stieglitz to Waldo Frank, 25 December 1920 [YCAL]).

The photograph of Frank in the hammock, to which Stieglitz refers above, is a variant of this photograph, and is now in the Waldo Frank Papers, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

Stieglitz Collections

A corresponding print was given to the following institution(s) by Alfred Stieglitz during his lifetime, or was received or acquired from the estate:

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, YCAL MSS 85, box 124, folder 2473

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:

1921, New York (nos. 86–88, as Waldo Frank, 1920)

Lifetime Publications

A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:

Gorham B. Muson, Waldo Frank: A Study (New York, 1923): frontispiece


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