New York from 405 E 54th Street
1936/1937
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Alfred Stieglitz
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): 8.8 x 11.6 cm (3 7/16 x 4 9/16 in.)
mount: 31.8 x 25.1 cm (12 1/2 x 9 7/8 in.) -
Accession Number
1949.3.1262
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Stieglitz Estate Number
132E
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Key Set Number
1619
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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. 1619.
Inscriptions
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 132E
Wikidata ID
Q64036834
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
This photograph and Key Set number 1620 look east from 405 East 54th Street toward Welfare Island (now Roosevelt Island) in the East River. As Stieglitz and O’Keeffe moved to the penthouse in October 1936, and the construction of a hospital on Welfare Island (which would begin in spring 1937) is not yet evident, the photographs were made in either late 1936 or early 1937. The titles for these two prints are based on those of similar works included in Stieglitz’s 1934 exhibition at An American Place.