Equivalent HH1
1929
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): 12 x 9.5 cm (4 3/4 x 3 3/4 in.)
mount: 34.6 x 27.3 cm (13 5/8 x 10 3/4 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.1038
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Stieglitz Estate Number
146B
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Key Set Number
1258
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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. 1258.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, center left verso, in graphite: HH1 [1 in subscript]
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: 146-B
Wikidata ID
Q64036326
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
The patterns of the clouds and the stark contrast of all three prints in set HH (this photograph and Key Set numbers 1259 and 1260) are characteristic of other prints dating from 1929.
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:
Library of Congress, Washington, PH-36 A (inscribed: P3)
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, 2003.1.14 (inscribed: Top / Set X4)
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1997-146-94 (inscribed: For Dorothy Norman—/ Dec 21/29)
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 2018.84.14