Claudia O'Keeffe
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
image (visible): 18.1 × 19.3 cm (7 1/8 × 7 5/8 in.)
mat: 58.42 × 47.94 cm (23 × 18 7/8 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.519
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Stieglitz Estate Number
35C
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Key Set Number
730
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2009
Man Ray: African Art and the Modernist Lens, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, October 10, 2009–January 10, 2010; University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, February 6–May 30, 2010; University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, August 7–October 10, 2010; Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, October 30, 2010–January 23, 2011
Bibliography
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 730.
2009
Grossman, Wendy. Man Ray, African Art and the Modernist Lens. Exh. cat. The Phillips Collection, Washington, 2009.
Inscriptions
by later hand, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 35 C
Wikidata ID
Q64035087
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
Claudia O’Keeffe holds a nineteenth- or early twentieth-century mask made by the Baule or Yaure people. The mask was possibly included in an exhibition of African wood statuary held at 291 from 3 November to 8 December 1914.
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. 27–28, as Claudia O’Keeffe, 1922)