Skip to Main Content
Reader Mode

Copy-and-paste citation text:

Sarah Greenough, “Alfred Stieglitz/A Venetian Well/1894, printed 1895/1896,” Alfred Stieglitz Key Set, NGA Online Editions, https://purl.org/nga/collection/artobject/205702 (accessed March 28, 2024).

Export as PDF


Export from an object page includes entry, notes, images, and all menu items except overview and related contents.
Export from an artist page includes image if available, biography, notes, and bibliography.
Note: Exhibition history, provenance, and bibliography are subject to change as new information becomes available.

PDF  

No archived versions currently available

You may download complete editions of this catalog from the catalog’s home page.

Key Set Entry

Related Key Set Photographs

  • Alfred Stieglitz
    A Venetian Well
    1894, printed 1929/1934
    gelatin silver print
    Key Set Number 159
    same negative

Remarks

This photograph and Key Set number 159 are views of the Campo Santi Giovanni e Paolo.

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:

George Eastman Museum, Rochester, 83:0660:0034 [lantern slide] (inscribed: A Venetian Well. / 122)

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:

probably 1899, New York, Camera Club (no. 9, as A Venetian Well, 1894–1897, carbon enlargement)
1934, New York (no. 11, as A Venetian Well, 1894, or no. 22, as Venetian Well II, 1894, gelatin silver)

Lifetime Publications

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

Photograms of the Year (London, 1896): 45 (ill., A Venetian Well)

The American Annual of Photography and Photographic Times Almanac for 1897 (New York, 1896): 23 (ill., A Venetian Well)

W. I. Lincoln Adams, ed., Sunlight and Shadow (New York, 1897): 74 (ill., A Venetian Well)

Marmaduke Humphrey, “Triumphs in Amateur Photography,” Godey’s Magazine 135 (December 1897): 586 (ill., A Venetian Well)

F. Huber Hodge, “Amateur Photography,” The Home Magazine 11:2 (August 1898): 191 (ill., A Venetian Well)

The Photographic Times 31 (December 1899): opp. 545 (ill., A Venetian Well, photogravure)

Inscription

by Alfred Stieglitz, on interleaving tissue, upper right, in graphite: A Venetian Well / 1894

Provenance

Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

O'Keeffe, Georgia

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. 158.

Related Content

  • Sort by:
  • Results layout:
Show  results per page
The image compare list is empty.