The Little Milkmaid

1894, printed 1929/1934

Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    platinum print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to image): 18.8 × 14.2 cm (7 3/8 × 5 9/16 in.)
    mount: 35.5 × 28.1 cm (14 × 11 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1949.3.163

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    59D

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    189

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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

2002

  • Alfred Stieglitz: Known and Unknown, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, June 2–September 2, 2002; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 6, 2002–January 5, 2003

Bibliography

1983

  • Greenough, Sarah, and Juan Hamilton. Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings. Washington, 1983: no. 13, pl. 6.

2002

  • Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 189.

Inscriptions

by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 59D

Wikidata ID

Q64034722

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