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 (visible): 19.1 × 24.1 cm (7 1/2 × 9 1/2 in.)
mat: 56.5 × 45.5 cm (22 1/4 × 17 15/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.611
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Stieglitz Estate Number
20A
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
780
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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. 780.
Inscriptions
by Doris Bry, on mount, lower left, in graphite: Treated by Steichen - 6/50; lower left verso, in graphite: 20A
Wikidata ID
Q64035293
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
“I have been battling with the barn the last few days, a damned difficult experiment” (Stieglitz to Paul Strand, 26 July 1922 [YCAL and CCP]).
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)