The Black Barn & White Snow
1923
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 19.3 × 24.3 cm (7 5/8 × 9 9/16 in.)
mount: 56.1 × 45.7 cm (22 1/16 × 18 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.615
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Stieglitz Estate Number
20B
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
870
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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
2010
Alfred Stieglitz: The Lake George Years, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2010
Bibliography
1958
Bry, Doris. Exhibition of Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1958: no. 88b.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 870.
2010
Annear, Judy, ed. Alfred Stieglitz: The Lake George Years. Exh. cat. Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2010.
Inscriptions
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 20 B
Wikidata ID
Q64035299
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
For more information about the snowstorm pictured here, see Key Set number 863.
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:
1924, New York (no. 48, as The Black Barn & White Snow, 1923)