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): 9.3 x 12 cm (3 11/16 x 4 3/4 in.)
mount: 34.1 x 27.6 cm (13 7/16 x 10 7/8 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.904
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Stieglitz Estate Number
173C
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Key Set Number
1062
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Bibliography
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 1062.
Inscriptions
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: [?C]; upper right verso: 173C
Wikidata ID
Q64036022
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
The dates for this photograph and Key Set numbers 1063–1069 are based on similarities to Key Set number 1054 and other prints dated 1924. Probably referring to prints made prior to 1925, Stieglitz wrote to Sherwood Anderson on 5 July 1925, “I have been looking for years—50 upwards—at a particular sky line of simple hills—how can I tell the world in words what that line is—changing as it does every moment.—I’d love to get down what ‘that’ line has done for me—May be I have—somewhat—in those snapshots I’ve been doing the last few years” (YCAL and Newberry Library).
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 Museum of Modern Art, New York, 38.1950