Georgia O'Keeffe—Breasts

1919

Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

A woman’s nude torso with both breasts, the inner arms, tummy, and top of the pubic area fill this vertical photograph. Though monotone like a black and white photograph, the shading here is silvery, giving the image an ethereal look. The woman’s arms press her breasts with pale nipples close together. Light falls especially across her chest and her stomach and lower arms fall into subtle shadow.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 22.5 x 17.2 cm (8 7/8 x 6 3/4 in.)
    sheet: 25.2 x 20.1 cm (9 15/16 x 7 15/16 in.)
    mat: 49.3 x 32.6 cm (19 7/16 x 12 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1980.70.109

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    OK 30B

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    575

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1980.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1992

  • Two Lives: Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz—A Conversation in Painting and Photographs, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, December 2, 1992–April 4, 1993; IBM Gallery of Science and Art, New York, April 27–June 26, 1993; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, July 17–September 12, 1993; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 2–December 5, 1993

2004

  • Alfred Stieglitz and His Circle: 1905–1930, Musée d'Orsay, Paris; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2004–2005

2009

  • Georgia O'Keeffe and Abstraction, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, 2009–2010

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

1992

  • Arrowsmith, Alexandra, Thomas West, and Belinda Rathbone. Two Lives: A Conversation in Paintings and Photographs. Exh. cat. The Phillips Collection, Washington and New York, 1992: 130.

2002

  • Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 575.

Inscriptions

by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: OK 30B

Wikidata ID

Q64037104

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