Watching for the Return
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
image: 17.9 x 34 cm (7 1/16 x 13 3/8 in.)
sheet: 18.4 x 34.5 cm (7 1/4 x 13 9/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.208
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Stieglitz Estate Number
106B
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
224
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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. 224.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, lower left, in graphite: AS
by later hand, on mount, lower right, in graphite: #1
Wikidata ID
Q64034742
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
For Stieglitz’s description of Katwijk, see Key Set number 206.
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2006.133.124
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. 262, as Watching for the Return)
1899, New York (no. 31, as Watching for the Return, 1894, photogravure)
1901, Glasgow (no. 116, as Watching for the Return)
1902, New York (no. 128, as Watching for the Return, 1894)
1902, Turin (no. 63, as In attesta del ritorno)
1903, Minneapolis (no. 7, as Watching for the Return)
1903, Toronto (no. 14, as Watching for the Return)
1903, Brussels (no. 434, as Watching for the Return)
1903, Hamburg (no. 427, as Watching for the Return, carbon)
1903, San Francisco (no. 31, as Watching for the Return)
1903, Denver (no. 149, as Watching for the Return)
1904, Washington (no. 134, as Watching for the Return)
1904, Pittsburgh (no. 225, as Watching for the Return)
1904, The Hague (no. 123, as Watching for the Return)
1909, Dresden (no. 167, as Watching for the Return)
1910, Buffalo (no. 426, as Watching for the Return, Katwyk, 1894, carbon)
1913, New York (no. 4, as Watching for the Return, 1894)
Lifetime Publications
A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
The Photographic Times 28 (January 1896): 1 (ill., Watching for the Return, photogravure)
Wiener Photographische Blätter 3:10 (October 1896): between 188 and 189 (ill., In Erwartung der Heimkehr)
Walter Colls, ed., Pictorial Photographs: A Record of the Photographic Salon of 1896
‘Erwartung’ von Alfred Stieglitz, Photographisches Centralblatt 5 (1899): between 412 and 413 (ill., Erwartung)
Photographische Rundschau 16:12 (1902): unpaginated (ill., Erwartung, photogravure)
Joseph Keiley, “American Pictorial Photographers. Alfred Stieglitz,” Photography 17:797 (20 February 1904): 159 (ill., Waiting for the Return of the Boats)