The Beach, Katwyk

1894, printed 1929/1934

Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print mounted on paperboard

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to image): 15.8 x 22.2 cm (6 1/4 x 8 3/4 in.)
    mount: 27.1 x 34.6 cm (10 11/16 x 13 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1949.3.216

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    79D

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    228

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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. 228.

Inscriptions

by later hand, on mount, center right verso, in graphite: F

Wikidata ID

Q64034746

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

For Stieglitz’s description of boats landing in Katwijk, see Key Set number 225.

Other Collections

A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):

Kicken Berlin, P8804033 [platinum] (inscribed: Katwyk / Alfred Stieglitz)

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 The Beach at Katwyk, lantern slide)
1899, Newark (no. 246, as On Katwyk Beach—A Sketch in Gum)
1899, New York, Camera Club (no. 49, as Katwyk Beach, 1894–1899, carbon enlargement)
1900, Philadelphia (no. 167, as The Beach: Katwyk)
1901, London (no. 5, as The Beach—Katwyk)
1901, New York, Camera Club (no. 169, as Katwyk Beach)
1902, New York, National Arts Club (no. 133, as Katwyk Beach, 1894)
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:

F. Schiffner, “Zur Geschichte der Künstlerischen Photographie,” Photographisches Centralblatt 4 (December 1898): 435 (ill., untitled)

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