The Dying Chestnut Tree or Life and Death
1927
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): 23.4 x 15 cm (9 3/16 x 5 7/8 in.)
mount: 37 x 27.3 cm (14 9/16 x 10 3/4 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.678
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Stieglitz Estate Number
95D
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
1193
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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. 1193.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, lower right verso, in graphite: 2 2
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, bottom left verso, in graphite: 95 D
Wikidata ID
Q64035471
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
See Key Set number 1191.
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
George Eastman Museum, Rochester, 68:0027:0002
Joseph M. Cohen Family Collection, New York
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, PHO 2003 8 16
Private collection (3 prints)
The Sir Elton John Photography Collection
University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, 97.58.2
Location unknown
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)
Lifetime Publications
A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
Elizabeth McCausland, “Photographs by Stieglitz Now at An American Place,” Springfield Sunday Union and Republican (16 December 1934): section E, 6 (ill., Life and Death)