The Ferry Boat, 1910, printed 1911

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Remarks

The Bound Brook, part of the ferry fleet owned by the Central Railroad of New Jersey, shuttled commuters across the Hudson River between Liberty Street Terminal in lower Manhattan and Communipaw Terminal in Jersey City, New Jersey.

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:

1910, Buffalo (no. 445, as After Working Hours, The Ferry Boat, 1910, photogravure)
1913, New York (no. 25, as After Working Hours—The Ferry Boat, 1910)
1937, New York (no. 337, as The Ferry Boat, 1910, photogravure from Camera Work)
1944, Philadelphia (no. 24, as After Working Hours—The Ferry Boat, 1910)

Lifetime Publications

A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:

Camera Work 36 (October 1911): pl. 3 (ill., The Ferry Boat, 1910)

Note

Image courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Provenance

Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.

Exhibition History

1992

Stieglitz in the Darkroom, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, October 4, 1992–February 14, 1993

Bibliography

2002

Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 331.

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