Georgia O'Keeffe

1918

Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    palladium print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 24.3 x 19.4 cm (9 9/16 x 7 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 24.9 x 20.2 cm (9 13/16 x 7 15/16 in.)
    mat: 50.8 x 38 cm (20 x 14 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1980.70.61

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    OK 3E

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    472

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1980.

Associated Names

Bibliography

2002

  • Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 472.

Inscriptions

by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: Exhibition 1921 / 1918; upper right verso: No. 109
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left, in graphite: Treated by Steichen 6/49; lower left verso: OK 3E

Wikidata ID

Q64036990

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

O’Keeffe’s charcoal drawing No. 15 Special, 1916/1917 (Lynes 154), is in the background of this photograph and the following Key Set numbers: 471, 473, 474, 475, 476, 477, 478, 479, 480, 481, and 482.

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:

1921, New York (no. 109, as A Woman, 1918–1920)

Lifetime Publications

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

“The Female of the Species Achieves a New Deadliness: Women Painters of America Whose Work Exhibits Distinctiveness of Style and Marked Individuality,” Vanity Fair 18 (July 1922): 50 (ill., Georgia O’Keefe [sic])


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