Lake George from the Hill
1932
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): 19.1 × 24 cm (7 1/2 × 9 7/16 in.)
mount: 54.7 × 44.8 cm (21 9/16 × 17 5/8 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.714
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Stieglitz Estate Number
15C
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
1473
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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
2002
Alfred Stieglitz: Known and Unknown, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, June 2–September 2, 2002; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 6, 2002–January 5, 2003
Bibliography
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 1473.
Inscriptions
by Doris Bry, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 15C / 15C
Wikidata ID
Q64035563
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
For more information about this photograph, see Key Set number 1471.
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:
The Art Institute of Chicago, 1949.767
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, YCAL MSS 85, box 125, folder 2491
Fisk University, Nashville, and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, ASC.2012.97
Library of Congress, Washington, PH-48 B
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Ph-172
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1949-18-75
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
Collection of Richard and Ronay Menschel
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 436.1997
Location unknown
Lifetime Publications
A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
Waldo Frank et al., America & Alfred Stieglitz (New York, 1934): pl. 28c (ill., Lake George From the Hill, 1931)