Poplars—Lake George
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): 23.5 × 18.1 cm (9 1/4 × 7 1/8 in.)
mount: 56.4 × 42.9 cm (22 3/16 × 16 7/8 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.727
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Stieglitz Estate Number
23B
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
1467
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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. 1467.
Inscriptions
by Doris Bry, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 23-B
Wikidata ID
Q64035599
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
“Have finally one thing I think pretty grand—a tree—a dead one” ( Stieglitz to Herbert Seligmann, 6 September 1932, YCAL).
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 Museum of Modern Art, New York, 61.1950
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 52.1805
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, 2003.1.19
Philadelphia Museum of Art, SC 1968-68-31 (inscribed: Poplars—Lake George—1932 / by Alfred Stieglitz / With permission / An American Place)
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. 27c (ill., Poplars—Lake George, 1932)