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): 11.7 x 9.1 cm (4 5/8 x 3 9/16 in.)
mount: 34.2 x 27.5 cm (13 7/16 x 10 13/16 in.) -
Accession Number
1949.3.875
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Stieglitz Estate Number
161C
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Key Set Number
911
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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. 911.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, upper center verso, in graphite: Top; lower left verso, crossed out: C7 [7 in subscript] / D7 [7 in subscript] / 7
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: 161-C
by later hand, on mount, lower right verso, in graphite: 016
Wikidata ID
Q64035952
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:
George Eastman Museum, Rochester, 74:0052:0022
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 47.1950 (inscribed: Top)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 52.1830
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 93.XM.25.10