Self-Portrait, Cortina

1890, printed 1895/1896

Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    platinum print with mercury

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to image): 13.3 × 17.9 cm (5 1/4 × 7 1/16 in.)
    page size: 27.1 × 34.8 cm (10 11/16 × 13 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1949.3.63

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    73D

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    71

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1983

  • Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, February 3–May 8, 1983; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June 17–August 14, 1983; The Art Institute of Chicago, October 18, 1983–January 3, 1984

1985

  • Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1985

Bibliography

1983

  • Greenough, Sarah, and Juan Hamilton. Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings. Washington, 1983: no. 5.

2002

  • Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 71.

Inscriptions

by Alfred Stieglitz, on interleaving tissue, lower right, in graphite: Myself, (Cortina, 1890).

Wikidata ID

Q64037712

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Other Collections

A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1992.197.121 [gelatin silver]

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