A Nook in Pallanza
1887, printed 1895/1896
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
platinum print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 20.8 × 16 cm (8 3/16 × 6 5/16 in.)
page size: 34.8 × 27 cm (13 11/16 × 10 5/8 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.38
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Stieglitz Estate Number
64A
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Key Set Number
45
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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. 45.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on interleaving tissue, lower right, in graphite: A Nook in Pallanza.
Wikidata ID
Q64037793
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, 83:0660:0009 [lantern slide] (inscribed: A Nook in Pallanza. [Italy].)
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2006.3.1.18
Location unknown [lantern slide]
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:
1892, New York, The Society of Amateur Photographers of New York (as A Nook in Pallanza, lantern slide)
1892, Boston (no. 327, as A Nook in Pallanza)
1893, Philadelphia (no. 514, as A Nook in Pallanza, platinum)
1895, Bridgeport (as Nook in Pallanza)
1896, Berlin (as Ecke in Pallanza)
1897, London, R.P.S. (no. 440, as A Nook in Tallanza [sic], lantern slide)
1899, New York (no. 13, as A Nook in Pallanza, 1887–1890, platinum direct)
Lifetime Publications
A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
The Photographic Times 29:419 (27 September 1889): opp. 479 (ill., A Cottage Corner, photogravure)