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): 11.4 × 8.9 cm (4 1/2 × 3 1/2 in.)
mount: 34.3 × 27.3 cm (13 1/2 × 10 3/4 in.) -
Accession Number
1949.3.662
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Stieglitz Estate Number
198D
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Key Set Number
1071
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1995
Alfred Stieglitz at Lake George, Museum of Modern Art, New York, September 14, 1995–January 2, 1996
Bibliography
1990
Lowe, Sue Davidson. "Taken Lightly." Art & Antiques (Summer 1990): repro. 107.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 1071.
Inscriptions
by later hand, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: 198D
Wikidata ID
Q64035420
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
Sue Davidson was the daughter of Stieglitz’s niece Elizabeth and her husband Donald Douglas Davidson.
The date is based on Sue Davidson Lowe, Stieglitz: A Memoir/Biography (New York, 1983), pl. 17.
Other Collections
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