"Hedwigsweg," at Oaklawn

1888, 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): 20.9 × 16.2 cm (8 1/4 × 6 3/8 in.)
    page size: 34.8 × 27 cm (13 11/16 × 10 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1949.3.52

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    73B

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    56

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

Bibliography

2002

  • Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 56.

Inscriptions

by Alfred Stieglitz, on interleaving tissue, lower right, in graphite: "Hedwigsweg," / at Oaklawn

Wikidata ID

Q64037747

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

In July 1888 Stieglitz traveled to the United States for the wedding of his sister Flora to Alfred Stearn and returned to Europe in October.

Lifetime Publications

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

George Davison, “The London Exhibitions,” The American Amateur Photographer 7:11 (November 1895): 483 (ill., Summer Days, image reversed)

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