The Terminal
1893, printed in or before 1913
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
photogravure on beige thin slightly textured laid Japanese paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 25.5 x 33.6 cm (10 1/16 x 13 1/4 in.)
sheet: 28.2 x 40.2 cm (11 1/8 x 15 13/16 in.)
mount: 31.6 x 42.2 cm (12 7/16 x 16 5/8 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.74
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Stieglitz Estate Number
128C
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
94
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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
1989
The Art of Photography, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1989
1992
Stieglitz in the Darkroom, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, October 4, 1992–February 14, 1993
2009
In the Darkroom: Photographic Processes Before the Digital Age, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2009–2010
Bibliography
1983
Greenough, Sarah, and Juan Hamilton. Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings. Washington, 1983: no. 21.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 94.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, lower left, in graphite: AS / 1892 / The Terminal; lower right: Alfred Stieglitz / 1892; on mount, center right, in graphite: #12; on backing board, lower center, in graphite: #3; upper center verso, on Alfred Stieglitz Collection label, in black ink: Alfred Stieglitz / The Terminal, / New York / 1892 / Original Gravure / Proof / Exhibition Alfred Stieglitz. / Photo-Secession Gallery, 1913; upper left verso, in black ink: [Museum of Modern Art label]
by later hand, lower left verso, in graphite: 128C
Wikidata ID
Q64034671
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:
The Art Institute of Chicago, 1949.848
Fisk University, Nashville, and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, ASC.2012.82
Library of Congress, Washington, PH-01 B
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 49.55.18
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 50.832
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Ph0150
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1949-18-48
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 52.1850