Arthur B. Carles
1923
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
palladium print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 24 × 19.2 cm (9 7/16 × 7 9/16 in.)
mount: 52.3 × 45.9 cm (20 9/16 × 18 1/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.579
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Stieglitz Estate Number
45B
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Key Set Number
854
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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. 92.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 854.
Inscriptions
by Doris Bry, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: Treated by Steichen - 6/50 / 45 B
by later hand, on mount, lower right verso, in graphite: 099
Wikidata ID
Q64035219
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
O’Keeffe’s painting The White Wave, 1922 (Lynes 383), exhibited in 1923 at the Anderson Galleries, is in the background.
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. 72–73, as Arthur B. Carles, 1923)