At City Hall, New York
1904/1911, 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): 11.1 x 8.5 cm (4 3/8 x 3 3/8 in.)
mount: 34.3 x 27 cm (13 1/2 x 10 5/8 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.248
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Stieglitz Estate Number
122C
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Key Set Number
302

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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
Bibliography
1983
Greenough, Sarah, and Juan Hamilton. Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings. Washington, 1983: no. 26, pl. 10.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 302.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, lower right verso, in graphite: B
Wikidata ID
Q64034757
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
The New York City subway opened in October 1904. This is the subway entrance at City Hall.
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:
1934, New York (no. 23, as At City Hall, New York, 1896)