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): 24.2 x 19.3 cm (9 1/2 x 7 5/8 in.)
mount: 56.7 x 46 cm (22 5/16 x 18 1/8 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.1229
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Stieglitz Estate Number
2C
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Key Set Number
1391
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1983
Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, February 3–May 8, 1983; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June 17–August 14, 1983; The Art Institute of Chicago, October 18, 1983–January 3, 1984
Bibliography
1983
Greenough, Sarah, and Juan Hamilton. Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings. Washington, 1983: no. 160, pl. 72.
2000
Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001: no. 189.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 1391.
Inscriptions
by later hand, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 2—C
Wikidata ID
Q64036758
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, 1949.783
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, YCAL MSS 85, box 125, folder 2484
George Eastman Museum, Rochester, 74:0052:0073
Library of Congress, Washington, PH-47 B
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 52.1821
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1997-146-23 (inscribed: New York, 193[?] / Alfred Stieglitz)
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. 19–28, as From my window at The Shelton—west, 1931)