From My Window at the Shelton, West

1931

Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to image): 24.2 x 19 cm (9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.)
    mount: 56.1 x 46.6 cm (22 1/16 x 18 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1949.3.1226

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    1E

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    1390

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1996

  • City of Ambition: Artists and New York, 1900–1960, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, July 3–October 27, 1996

1999

  • UNDERconstruction, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, May 14–August 8, 1999

Bibliography

2002

  • Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 1390.

Inscriptions

by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 1E
by later hands, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: [square]; upper center verso: 26

Wikidata ID

Q64036751

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

For more information about this photograph, see Key Set number 1389.

Lifetime Publications

A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:

Waldo Frank et al., America & Alfred Stieglitz (New York, 1934): pl. 27a (ill., From the Shelton Westward, 1931)

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