From the Shelton, New York, Looking East
1926/1927
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): 9 x 11.7 cm (3 9/16 x 4 5/8 in.)
mount: 27 x 33 cm (10 5/8 x 13 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.1267
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Stieglitz Estate Number
131D
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Key Set Number
1179
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2016
Georgia O'Keeffe, Tate Modern, London, July 6–October 30, 2016; Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna, December 7, 2016–March 26, 2017; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, April 22–July 30, 2017
Bibliography
1991
Peters, Sarah Whitaker. Becoming O'Keeffe: The Early Years. New York, 1991: pl. 150.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 1179.
Inscriptions
by later hand, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 131D
Wikidata ID
Q64036841
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
In November 1925 Stieglitz and O’Keeffe moved from an apartment on East 58th Street to the thirtieth floor of the newly constructed Shelton Hotel on Lexington Avenue, between 48th and 49th Streets. The atmospheric qualities of this print distinguish it from Stieglitz’s later studies of the city, and suggest that it was one of his first photographs taken from the Shelton. The title is based on Stieglitz’s inscriptions on Key Set numbers 1181 and 1187.
O’Keeffe made two paintings of this same view, River, New York, 1928, and East River from the 30th Story of the Shelton Hotel, 1928 (Lynes 619 and 620).