On the Dykes
1894, printed 1895/1896
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
platinum print mounted on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 7.4 x 10.3 cm (2 15/16 x 4 1/16 in.)
page size: 27.1 x 34.3 cm (10 11/16 x 13 1/2 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.220
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Stieglitz Estate Number
66D
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Key Set Number
234
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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
Bibliography
1983
Greenough, Sarah, and Juan Hamilton. Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings. Washington, 1983: no. 16.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 234.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on interleaving tissue, upper right, in graphite: On the Dykes.
Wikidata ID
Q64037766
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
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, 83:0660:0031 [lantern slide] (inscribed: On the Dykes, 1894 / Alfred Stieglitz, New York)
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:
1895, Brussels (as Sur les digues)
1895, London, R.P.S. (no. 297, as On the Dykes, photogravure)
1896, New York, The Society of Amateur Photographers of New York, “Lantern Slides by Alfred Stieglitz” (as On the Dykes, Katwyk)
1896, Paris (no. 573, as Sur les digues, photogravure)
1899, New York (no. 33, as On the Dykes, 1894, photogravure)
Lifetime Publications
A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
The American Amateur Photographer 7:12 (December 1895): opp. 529 (ill., On the Dykes, photogravure)