The Letterbox
1894, printed 1929/1934
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print mounted on paperboard
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 22.3 x 16.8 cm (8 3/4 x 6 5/8 in.)
mount: 34.6 x 27.1 cm (13 5/8 x 10 11/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.156
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Stieglitz Estate Number
61C
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
184

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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. 184.
Inscriptions
by later hand, on mount, lower right verso, in graphite: F
Wikidata ID
Q64034718
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
For more information about this photograph, see Key Set number 181.
For Stieglitz's description of Gutach, where this view was made, see Key Set number 171.
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:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, YCAL MSS 85, box 123, folder 2462