Going to Pasture
1894, 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): 8.4 x 11 cm (3 5/16 x 4 5/16 in.)
mount: 31.4 x 25 cm (12 3/8 x 9 13/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.105
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Stieglitz Estate Number
107E
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Key Set Number
128
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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. 128.
Inscriptions
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 107E
Wikidata ID
Q64034693
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:
1897, New York, Knickerbocker (as Going to Pasture, lantern slide)
1897, London, R.P.S. (no. 87, as Going to Pasture, carbon, and no. 440, as Going to Pasture, lantern slide)
1899, New York (no. 81, as Going to Pasture, 1894–1897, carbon enlargement)
1899, Philadelphia (no. 282, as Going to Pasture)
Lifetime Publications
A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
“Alfred Stieglitz and His Latest Work,” The Photographic Times 28:4 (April 1896): 166 (ill., Going to Pasture)