The Barn
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 (Stieglitz window mat): 18.9 × 23.9 cm (7 7/16 × 9 7/16 in.)
mount: 56.4 × 46.1 cm (22 3/16 × 18 1/8 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.534
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Stieglitz Estate Number
19D
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Key Set Number
783
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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. 783.
Inscriptions
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left, in graphite: Treated by Steichen 5/49; lower left verso: 19 D; upper left verso, in graphite: 19 D
by Doris Bry, lower left, in graphite: Treated by Steichen 5/49
Wikidata ID
Q64035110
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
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, 24.1737 [gelatin silver] (inscribed: Chicken House—Lake George / Photograph by Alfred Stieglitz / 1922 / Print & negative made by / Alfred Stieglitz / 192[?] / Print no. 3 made from 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. 89–91, as The Barns, 1922)