From My Window at the Shelton, West
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): 24.1 x 19.1 cm (9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.)
mount: 57.8 x 45.8 cm (22 3/4 x 18 1/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.1228
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Stieglitz Estate Number
2D
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Key Set Number
1392
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1958
Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, March 16–April 27, 1958
1999
UNDERconstruction, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, May 14–August 8, 1999
Bibliography
1958
Bry, Doris. Exhibition of Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1958: no. 98, pl. 14.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 1392.
Inscriptions
by later hands, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite, in square: 1; lower left verso: 2—D; lower right verso: 0106
Wikidata ID
Q64036756
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
For more information about this photograph, see Key Set number 1389.
Stieglitz Collections
A corresponding print was given to the following institution(s) by Alfred Stieglitz during his lifetime, or was received or acquired from the estate:
The Art Institute of Chicago, 1949.784
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 50.847
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 52.1822
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1935.56 (inscribed: New York—32 / Alfred Stieglitz)
Collection of the Prentice and Paul Sack Photographic Trust of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 93.XM.25.64
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1997-146-111 (inscribed: Looking NW from the Shelton)
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:
1934, Cleveland (no. 58, as New York, 1932)
Lifetime Publications
A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 22:3 (March 1935): 30 (ill., New York, 1932)