Georgia O'Keeffe—Hands and Grapes

1921

Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

A pair of delicate hands hold a bunch of grapes up against a window in this vertical black and white photograph. The hands and grapes are backlit against the bright window panes. The woman holds the stem of the bunch in her left hand between her thumb and index finger, and the rest of her fingers curve up and out. She cups the grapes from below with her other hand. Buttoned cuffs of a knitted shirt hug the woman’s wrists.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to image): 23 × 18.1 cm (9 1/16 × 7 1/8 in.)
    mount: 50 × 37.6 cm (19 11/16 × 14 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1980.70.166

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    OK 19C

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    680

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1980.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2002

  • Alfred Stieglitz: Known and Unknown, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, June 2–September 2, 2002; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 6, 2002–January 5, 2003

2004

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

2011

  • Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties, Brooklyn Museum, New York; Dallas Museum of Art; Cleveland Museum of Art, 2011–2012

Bibliography

2002

  • Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 680.

Inscriptions

by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: OK 19C
by later hand, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 14 3/4-19 5/8

Wikidata ID

Q64037241

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

For information about the date of this photograph, see Key Set number 678.

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