Songs of the Sky D3
1923
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
-
Medium
gelatin silver print
-
Credit Line
-
Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 11.7 x 9.1 cm (4 5/8 x 3 9/16 in.)
mount: 34.3 x 17.6 cm (13 1/2 x 6 15/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.871
-
Stieglitz Estate Number
160D
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
Learn more -
Key Set Number
907
Alfred Stieglitz
Curious for more Alfred Stieglitz scholarship?
Discover over 1,000 artworks that the artist’s wife Georgia O’Keeffe termed his “Key Set” of prize photographs. Museum scholars have illuminated each work, his career, practices, and lifetime achievements.
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1958
Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, March 16–April 27, 1958
Bibliography
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 907.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: Top; center left verso, crossed out: 6 / C3 [3 in subscript] / D3 [3 in subscript]; lower left: D3 [3 in subscript] / 3
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: 160D
by later hand, on mount, lower right verso, in graphite: 0.35
Wikidata ID
Q64035940
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
For information about the date of this photograph, see Key Set number 905.
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:
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 24.1733.3 (oriented 180° and inscribed: Song of the Sky / (in five pictures) / no. 3 / Photograph by / Alfred Stieglitz / New York / N.Y. / negative & print / made at Lake George, N.Y. / by Alfred Stieglitz / 1923. / Print 2 from this negative)