Interpretation

1919

Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    palladium print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 23.6 x 17.3 cm (9 5/16 x 6 13/16 in.)
    sheet: 25.1 x 20 cm (9 7/8 x 7 7/8 in.)
    mat: 56.5 x 46.3 cm (22 1/4 x 18 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1980.70.128

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    OK 25B

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    585

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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. 585.

Inscriptions

by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left, in graphite: Treated by Steichen for Stain 5/49; lower left verso: OK 25B

Wikidata ID

Q64037152

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

Paul Rosenfeld identified this photograph and Key Set number 586 in his review of Stieglitz’s 1921 exhibition: “A tiny phallic statuette weeps; is bowed over itself in weeping; while behind, like watered silk, there waves the sunlight of creation” (Paul Rosenfeld, “Stieglitz,” The Dial 70 [April 1921], 408–409).

For more information about this photograph, see Key Set number 584.

Other Collections

A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 93.XM.25.51

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 (nos. 144–145, as Interpretations, 1918–1920)


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