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): 23.8 × 19 cm (9 3/8 × 7 1/2 in.)
mount: 56.4 × 41.2 cm (22 3/16 × 16 1/4 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.729
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Stieglitz Estate Number
23E
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
1468
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
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
1950
Norman, Dorothy. "Alfred Stieglitz on Photography.” Magazine of Art 43 (December 1950): 300.
1951
Shiffman, Joseph. "The Alienation of the Artist: Alfred Stieglitz." American Quarterly 3 (Fall 1951): fig. 2.
1958
Norman, Dorothy. "Alfred Stieglitz: Visionary Photographer." Art in America 46 (Fall 1958): 55.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 1468.
Inscriptions
by Doris Bry, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 23-E
Wikidata ID
Q64035603
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
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, 1949.773
Fisk University, Nashville, and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, ASC.2012.99
George Eastman Museum, Rochester, 74:0052:0059
Library of Congress, Washington, PH-51 B
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 50.840
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 60.1950
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Ph-173
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1949-18-77
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 52.1808
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, P1998.77
Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York
Cincinnati Art Museum, 1982.78
Collection of Richard and Ronay Menschel
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, PHO 2003 8 19
National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003.115.36.a
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, no. 37978
New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, 1993.51.5
Normandie Foundation
Private collection
Private collection, San Francisco
Saint Louis Art Museum, 20:1982
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, E.899-2003