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 11.9 cm (3 5/8 x 4 11/16 in.)
mount: 34.8 x 27.6 cm (13 11/16 x 10 7/8 in.) -
Accession Number
1949.3.1080
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Stieglitz Estate Number
223A
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Key Set Number
1329
Alfred Stieglitz
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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. 1329.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 1930
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: 223A
by later hand, on mount, lower right verso, in graphite: X
Wikidata ID
Q64036417
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
In 1923 and 1927 Stieglitz included photographs of the poplar trees at Lake George as part of his Songs of the Sky and Equivalent series. In the 1930s the gradual death of the poplars became a separate subject in his art.