The Dying Chestnut Tree

1927

Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

Alfred Stieglitz

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to image): 24.2 x 19.3 cm (9 1/2 x 7 5/8 in.)
    mount: 56.5 x 46.4 cm (22 1/4 x 18 1/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1949.3.674

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    95E

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    1192

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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. 2, cat. 1192.

Inscriptions

by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, bottom left verso, in graphite: 95 E

Wikidata ID

Q64035465

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

See Key Set number 1191.

Stieglitz Collections

A corresponding print was given to the following institution(s) by Alfred Stieglitz during his lifetime, or was received or acquired from the estate:

National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Ph-167

Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1949-18-85

Other Collections

A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):

Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, 2017.87b

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 84.XM.217.7

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 2018.84.21

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:

possibly 1932, New York (nos. 91–92, as The Dying Chestnut Tree—My Teacher, 1926)


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