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): 11.7 × 9.2 cm (4 5/8 × 3 5/8 in.)
mount: 34.9 × 27.5 cm (13 3/4 × 10 13/16 in.) -
Accession Number
1949.3.710
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Stieglitz Estate Number
233A
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Key Set Number
1403
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1983
Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, February 3–May 8, 1983; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June 17–August 14, 1983; The Art Institute of Chicago, October 18, 1983–January 3, 1984
1995
Alfred Stieglitz at Lake George, Museum of Modern Art, New York, September 14, 1995–January 2, 1996
2010
Alfred Stieglitz: The Lake George Years, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2010
Bibliography
1983
Greenough, Sarah, and Juan Hamilton. Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings. Washington, 1983: no. 116.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 1403.
2010
Annear, Judy, ed. Alfred Stieglitz: The Lake George Years. Exh. cat. Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2010.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: "Richard" / 1931
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: 233A
Wikidata ID
Q64035555
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
Richard Menshausen worked for the Stieglitz family at the Lake George house several days a week. Stieglitz described him as: “A real person with blue eyes—all sinew—57 years old—a worker—talks little” (Stieglitz to Arthur Dove, 23 June 1923, Arthur Dove Papers, AAA).