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): 23.1 x 18.5 cm (9 1/8 x 7 5/16 in.)
mat: 56.5 x 45.6 cm (22 1/4 x 17 15/16 in.) -
Accession Number
1980.70.205
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Stieglitz Estate Number
OK 15D
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Key Set Number
828
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1980.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2017
Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern, Wichita Art Museum, Wichita; Nevada Museum of Art, Reno; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, 2017 - 2020, unnumbered catalogue.
Bibliography
1946
Engelhard, Georgia. "The Face of Alfred Stieglitz." Popular Photography 19 (September 1946): 55.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 828.
Inscriptions
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: OK 15D
Wikidata ID
Q64037344
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
The date is based on the type of photographic paper and mounting materials, which are similar to those of other dated prints from the early 1920s, and on similarities to Key Set numbers 833, 834, and 835.
Stieglitz Collections
A corresponding print was given to the following institution(s) by Alfred Stieglitz during his lifetime, or was received or acquired from the estate:
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 114.1984
Lifetime Publications
A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
Edward Steichen, “The Fighting Photo-Secession,” Vogue (15 June 1941): 23 (ill., Georgia O’Keeffe / 1924)