From My Window at the Shelton, North
1930/1931
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): 11.8 x 9.2 cm (4 5/8 x 3 5/8 in.)
mount: 34.8 x 27.5 cm (13 11/16 x 10 13/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.1212
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Stieglitz Estate Number
136C
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Key Set Number
1355
Alfred Stieglitz
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1996
Smith, Joel. "How Stieglitz Came to Photograph Cityscapes." History of Photography 20, no. 4 (Winter 1996): 325.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 1355.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount: center verso, in graphite: Ex 1932
by later hands, on mount, upper center verso, in graphite: 11; lower left verso: 136C; upper right verso, in blue pencil, circled: B
Wikidata ID
Q64036718
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
This photograph and Key Set number 1356 depict the RCA Victor Building, which became the General Electric Building shortly after its completion in early 1931 (hereafter referred to as the GE Building). Based on the composition and the small 4 × 5-inch format, these two images were probably made at the same time as Key Set numbers 1350–1354.
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:
1932, New York (nos. 10–16, as From my window at The Shelton, north, 1931)