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: 23.4 x 18.9 cm (9 3/16 x 7 7/16 in.)
    sheet: 25.1 x 20.1 cm (9 7/8 x 7 15/16 in.)
    mat: 51.1 x 41.3 cm (20 1/8 x 16 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1980.70.94

  • Key Set Number

    495

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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. 495.

Inscriptions

by Alfred Stieglitz, on original mount, upper left verso, in graphite: Photo 1918
by Georgia O'Keeffe, lower left verso, in graphite: K OK 29B; on mount, center: K OK B 29; lower left: Treated by Steichen 6/49; lower left verso: OK 29B
by later hand, on mount, center verso, in graphite: White

Wikidata ID

Q64037075

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

In the background of this photograph and Key Set numbers 494, 496, 497, and 498 is O’Keeffe’s charcoal drawing No. 15 Special, 1916/1917 (Lynes 154).


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