New York from 405 East 54th Street
1936/1937
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): 11.9 x 9.1 cm (4 11/16 x 3 9/16 in.)
mount: 35 x 27.4 cm (13 3/4 x 10 13/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.1224
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Stieglitz Estate Number
131E
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
1617
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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. 1617.
Inscriptions
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 131E
Wikidata ID
Q64036744
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
This photograph and Key Set number 1618 were taken from the penthouse at 405 East 54th Street looking southwest toward the Chrysler and Empire State Buildings. The photographs were made between October 1936 and June 1937, when Stieglitz left for Lake George. He did not return to the penthouse until December 1937, at which point he had stopped making photographs. The titles of these two prints are based on those of similar works included in Stieglitz’s 1934 exhibition at An American Place.
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
Private collection