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): 11.7 x 8.6 cm (4 5/8 x 3 3/8 in.)
mount: 34.3 x 27.3 cm (13 1/2 x 10 3/4 in.) -
Accession Number
1949.3.1184
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Stieglitz Estate Number
180E
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Key Set Number
774
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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. 1, cat. 774.
Inscriptions
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: 180E
Wikidata ID
Q64036656
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
Palm Springs Art Museum, California (inscribed: They heard the click—all flew away but they came back—Outside the window—Birds—They send their greetings to their sister—Bird! 1922.)
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:
1923, New York (no. 97, as Birds, 1922)