Portrait—K.N.R., No. 3 or Songs of the Sky C3
1923
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
image: 11.5 x 8.8 cm (4 1/2 x 3 7/16 in.)
sheet: 12.7 x 10.1 cm (5 x 4 in.)
mount: 34.3 x 27.6 cm (13 1/2 x 10 7/8 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.865
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Stieglitz Estate Number
59A
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
878
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2016
This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Reimagining Representation in American Art, 1912–Today, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, June 24–October 17, 2016
Bibliography
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 878.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: C3 [3 in subscript]
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: 159-A
Wikidata ID
Q64035931
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
For more information about this photograph, see Key Set number 876.
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Museum, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, 1967.31.45 (inscribed: K. N. R. No. 3 Lake George / Alfred Stieglitz)
Lifetime Exhibitions
A print from the same negative—perhaps a photograph from the Gallery’s collection—appeared in the following exhibition(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
1924, New York (nos. 14–19, as Portrait—K. N. R.)