A Bit of Katwyk

1894, printed 1895/1896

Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    platinum print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to image): 10 × 13.9 cm (3 15/16 × 5 1/2 in.)
    page size: 27 × 34.8 cm (10 5/8 × 13 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1949.3.191

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    71D

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    207

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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. 207.

Inscriptions

by Alfred Stieglitz, on interleaving tissue, upper right, in graphite: A Bit of Katwyk / 1894

Wikidata ID

Q64037697

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

For Stieglitz’s description of Katwijk, see Key Set number 206.

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:

possibly 1899, New York (no. 68, as A Bit of Katwyk, 1894, platinum direct)

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