Lake George
1922/1923
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
sheet (trimmed to image): 23.7 x 19 cm (9 5/16 x 7 1/2 in.)
mount: 50.8 x 37.7 cm (20 x 14 13/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.916
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Stieglitz Estate Number
26B
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Key Set Number
803
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2016
Georgia O'Keeffe, Tate Modern, London, July 6–October 30, 2016; Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna, December 7, 2016–March 26, 2017; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, April 22–July 30, 2017
Bibliography
1950
Norman, Dorothy. "Alfred Stieglitz on Photography.” Magazine of Art 43 (December 1950): 301.
1973
Norman, Dorothy. Alfred Stieglitz: An American Seer. New York, 1973: pl. xxxviii.
1991
Peters, Sarah Whitaker. Becoming O'Keeffe: The Early Years. New York, 1991: pl. 117.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 803.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, upper right verso, in brown pencil: B[?] / 1[?]; lower left verso, in graphite: Lake George—1919 / by Stieglitz
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 26B
by later hand, on mount, lower right verso, in graphite: 7-1944-361
Wikidata ID
Q64036046
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
The dates for this photograph and Key Set number 804 are based on compositional similarities to Key Set numbers 792–802, and the inscription on another print of Key Set number 804, which indicates that these two photographs must have been made before 1924. The date inscribed on this print, probably added at the time of the 1944 exhibition, is incorrect.
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, P2004.3
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1988.572
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, PHO 2003 8 10
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1805.1968
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1975-26-1; 1997-146-104 (inscribed: For Dorothy / CC)
Private collection
Richard and Ellen Sandor Family Collection (inscribed: The Hill and the Sky / Lake George / 1921 / by Alfred Stieglitz / For Marguerite Fischel / December 9, 1935 / May the stars be good to you / these coming years / Your old / 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:
1934, New York (no. 24, as Sky and Mountain, Lake George, 1924)
1944, Philadelphia (no. 302, as Affirmation—Lake George, 1919)
Lifetime Publications
A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
Waldo Frank et al., America & Alfred Stieglitz (New York, 1934): pl. 27d (ill., Lake George, 1924)
Twice a Year 1 (Fall–Winter 1938): frontispiece (ill., Mountain and Sky, Lake George, 1923)