Gossip—Katwyk
1894
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
carbon print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 17.8 × 28.2 cm (7 × 11 1/8 in.)
mat: 63.2 × 47 cm (24 7/8 × 18 1/2 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.194
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Stieglitz Estate Number
107C
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Key Set Number
208
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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
1992
Stieglitz in the Darkroom, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, October 4, 1992–February 14, 1993
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. 17.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 208.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on backing board, on Collection of Alfred Stieglitz label: Gossip—Katwyk / Alfred Stieglitz / Carbon / This print was shown at Dresden, Vienna, Buffalo, etc. / Print + negative made in 1894. This is / the best print in existence of this. There is / but one other and that is in the collection of Gräfin Oriola, Berlin. Original / negative 4 x 5. Shown in all the great / World's Exhibitions (Photo.); on 1909 Dresden exhibition label: 3. / Gossip—Katwyk. (1894) / Alfred Stieglitz / 1111 Madison Avenue, / New York / value $300 / nicht verkäuflich
Wikidata ID
Q64034735
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
For Stieglitz’s description of Katwijk, see Key Set number 206.
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:
1896, London (no. 258, as Gossip, Katwyk Beach)
1897, Paris (no. 502, as Gossip, Katwyk, carbon)
1898, New York, American Institute (no. 187, as Gossip—Katwyk, silver medal)
1898, Philadelphia (no. 201, as Gossip, Katwyk)
1898, Munich (no. 280, as Strassenklatsch—Katwyk)
1899, Berlin (no. 568, as Strassenklatsch—Katwyk)
1899, New York (no. 39, as Gossip, Katwyk, 1894–1899, carbon enlargement)
1899, Hamburg (no. 739, as Gossip—Katwyk, 1894)
1902, New York (no. 139, as Gossip—Katwyk, 1894)
1902, Leeds (no. 652, as Gossip—Katwyk)
1903, Rochester (no. 194, as Gossip, Katwyk)
1904, Pittsburgh (no. 228, as Gossip, Katwyk)
1904, The Hague (no. 121, as Gossip—Katwyk)
1909, New York (no. 182, as Gossip—Katwyk, 1894)
1909, Dresden (no. 166, as Gossip—Katwijk)
1910, Buffalo (no. 426A, as Gossip—Katwyk, 1894, carbon)
1913, New York (no. 3, as Gossip, Katwyk, 1894)
1921, New York (no. 10, as Gossip—Katwyk, 1894)
possibly 1934, New York (no. 19, as Beach at Katwyk, 1894)
Lifetime Publications
A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
Alfred Stieglitz, “The Hand Camera—Its Present Importance,” The American Annual of Photography and Photographic Times Almanac for 1897 (New York, 1896): 27 (ill., Gossip)
W. I. Lincoln Adams, In Nature’s Image (New York, 1898): 39 (ill., Gossip)
Joseph T. Keiley, “Tonality,” Camera Notes 2:4 (April 1899): 139, figs. A and B (ill., Gossip on the Beach)
Alfred Stieglitz, “Pictorial Photography,” Scribner’s Magazine 26:5 (November 1899): 529 (ill., Gossip, Katwyk)
Die Kunst in der Photographie 3 (1899): unpaginated (ill., Strassenklatsch)
Charles H. Caffin, “Photography as a Fine Art. II.—Alfred Stieglitz and His Work,” Everybody’s Magazine 4 (April 1901): opp. 360 (ill., Gossip—Katwyk, 1894)
Charles H. Caffin, Photography as a Fine Art (New York, 1901): opp. 24 (ill., Gossip—Katwyk)
The American Amateur Photographer 15:9 (September 1904): opp. 387 (ill., Gossip—Katvyke)
Camera Work 12 (October 1905): pl. 9 (ill., Gossip—Katwyk)
Alfred Stieglitz, “Simplicity in Composition,” in The Modern Way of Picture Making (Rochester, 1905): 164 (ill., Gossip—Katwyk)
J. Nilsen Laurvik, “Alfred Stieglitz, Pictorial Photographer,” The International Studio 44:174 (August 1911): 27 (ill., Gossip: Katwyk)
Georgia Engelhard, “Alfred Stieglitz: Master Photographer,” American Photography 39 (April 1945): 12 (ill., Gossip—Katwyk, 1894)