Songs of the Sky
1924
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): 9.2 x 11.6 cm (3 5/8 x 4 9/16 in.)
mount: 34.9 x 27.4 cm (13 3/4 x 10 13/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.894
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Stieglitz Estate Number
155B
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Key Set Number
1054

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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1958
Norman, Dorothy. "Alfred Stieglitz: Visionary Photographer." Art in America 46 (Fall 1958): 56.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 1054.
Inscriptions
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: 155B
by later hand, on mount, lower right verso, in graphite: 155B
Wikidata ID
Q64035993
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, 1949.793
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, YCAL MSS 85, box 121, folder 2439
Fisk University, Nashville, and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, ASC.2012.91
George Eastman Museum, Rochester, 74:0052:0090 (inscribed: 1924 / 1925)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 28.128.5 (inscribed: Equivalent—1924 / Alfred Stieglitz / 1924)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 50.854
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1949-18-88
The Phillips Collection, Washington, no. 1834
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 52.1826
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
Collection of Richard and Ronay Menschel, no. 2574
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College