Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 9.3 x 11.9 cm (3 11/16 x 4 11/16 in.)
sheet: 10.1 x 12.6 cm (4 x 4 15/16 in.)
mount: 34.2 x 27.6 cm (13 7/16 x 10 7/8 in.) -
Accession Number
1949.3.852
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Stieglitz Estate Number
156E
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Key Set Number
896
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2010
Alfred Stieglitz: The Lake George Years, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2010
Bibliography
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 896.
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: A8 [8 in subscript]
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: 156-E
Wikidata ID
Q64035896
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
For information about the date of this print, see Key Set number 890.
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:
George Eastman Museum, Rochester, 74:0052:0007 (oriented 180°)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 28.1950 (inscribed: Songs of the Sky—No. 7 / by Alfred Stieglitz / Keep Clean / Return to Alfred Stieglitz / c/o George F. Of / 274 Madison Ave)