Frances O'Brien
1926
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): 11.2 × 8.85 cm (4 7/16 × 3 1/2 in.)
mount: 34.6 × 27.6 cm (13 5/8 × 10 7/8 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.636
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Stieglitz Estate Number
182E
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Key Set Number
1143

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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2011
Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties, Brooklyn Museum, New York; Dallas Museum of Art; Cleveland Museum of Art, 2011–2012
Bibliography
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 1143.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, bottom left verso, in graphite: Frances O’Brien / 1925
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: 182 E
Wikidata ID
Q64035348
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
Frances O’Brien was a painter, critic, and teacher who wrote for The Nation. She visited Lake George in August 1926.