The Street Paver
1893, printed 1929/1934
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 8 x 9.3 cm (3 1/8 x 3 11/16 in.)
mount: 31.8 x 25.2 cm (12 1/2 x 9 15/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.84
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Stieglitz Estate Number
126A
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Key Set Number
77
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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. 23, pl. 11.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 77.
Inscriptions
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 126A
Wikidata ID
Q64034675
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
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:
1899, New York (no. 2, as The Street Paver, 1893–1899, carbon enlargement)
1900, New York (no. 101, as The Street Paver)
1900, Philadelphia (no. 165, as The Street Paver)
1902, New York (no. 140, as The Street Paver, New York, 1892)
1903, Toronto (no. 17, as Street Paver)
1903, Rochester (no. 196, as The Street Paver)