Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 11.8 x 9.2 cm (4 5/8 x 3 5/8 in.)
mount: 34.8 x 27.5 cm (13 11/16 x 10 13/16 in.) -
Accession Number
1980.70.171
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Stieglitz Estate Number
OK 502B
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Key Set Number
999
Alfred Stieglitz
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1980.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1996
Fahlman, Betsy. "Arnold Rönnebeck and Alfred Stieglitz: Remembering the Hill." History of Photography (Winter 1996): 309, fig. 6.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 999.
Inscriptions
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: OK 502B
Wikidata ID
Q64037250
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
When Arnold Rönnebeck, a German-born American artist, visited Lake George in October 1924, he photographed Stieglitz making this portrait and Key Set numbers 1000, 1001, and 1002 (see Betsy Fahlman, “Arnold Rönnebeck and Alfred Stieglitz: Remembering the Hill,” History of Photography 20:4 [Winter 1996], 304–311).
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.25.69