Interpretation
1919
Alfred Stieglitz
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
palladium print
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Credit Line
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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 Number
1980.70.128
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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
Q64037152Scholarly 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)