Hands—Alma Wertheim
1922
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
palladium print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 18.7 × 23 cm (7 3/8 × 9 1/16 in.)
sheet: 20.2 × 25.2 cm (7 15/16 × 9 15/16 in.)
mount: 57.1 × 46.3 cm (22 1/2 × 18 1/4 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.526
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Stieglitz Estate Number
82D
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Key Set Number
736
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1958
Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, March 16–April 27, 1958
Bibliography
1958
Bry, Doris. Exhibition of Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1958: no. 83.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 736.
Inscriptions
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, center, in graphite: Alma Hands; lower left: Treated by Steichen for stain 5/49
by Doris Bry, on mount, lower left verso: 82 - D
by later hand, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: 82 D; center left verso: QQEx; lower right verso: 091
Wikidata ID
Q64035094
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
Alma Morgenthau Wertheim, wife of Maurice, collected O’Keeffe’s work and was a supporter of the Intimate Gallery. In 1928 Stieglitz donated two portraits of O’Keeffe to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in Wertheim’s name.
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:
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 24.1730 (inscribed: Hands—Alma Wertheim / Photograph by / Alfred Stieglitz/ New York / negative & print / made by Alfred Stieglitz / 1922 / Print 3 from / this negative)
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:
1923, New York (nos. 52–58, as Alma Wertheim, 1922)