The Unwilling Bath
1887, printed 1895/1896
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
platinum print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 18.7 × 14.8 cm (7 3/8 × 5 13/16 in.)
page size: 34.8 × 27.3 cm (13 11/16 × 10 3/4 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.43
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Stieglitz Estate Number
76E
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
49
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
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
Bibliography
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 49.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on interleaving tissue, lower right, in graphite: "The Unwilling Bath," / 1887.
Wikidata ID
Q64037638
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, study collection
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:
1889, Berlin (no. 81.14, as Wasserscheu (Comer See) [Scared of Water (Lake Como)]
1892, New York, The Society of Amateur Photographers of New York (as An Unwilling Bath, lantern slide)
Lifetime Publications
A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
The American Amateur Photographer 7:10 (October 1895): 412 (ill., untitled)