Ida O'Keeffe
1919/1922
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
palladium print with mercury
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image (visible): 23.3 × 18.7 cm (9 3/16 × 7 3/8 in.)
mat: 50 × 39 cm (19 11/16 × 15 3/8 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.601
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Stieglitz Estate Number
49D
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Key Set Number
608
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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. 608.
Inscriptions
by Doris Bry, on mount, lower left, in graphite: Treated by Steichen—6/50; lower left verso, in graphite: 49D
Wikidata ID
Q64035271
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
Ida Ten Eyck O’Keeffe, one of Georgia’s younger sisters, was a frequent visitor to Lake George in the 1920s. Like her sister, Ida had studied painting at Columbia University Teachers College. She gave up her career as an art teacher to become a nurse.