Night—The Savoy

1897, printed 1929/1932

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

    image: 8.8 × 11.7 cm (3 7/16 × 4 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 10.1 × 15.2 cm (4 × 6 in.)
    mount: 31.5 × 24.8 cm (12 3/8 × 9 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1949.3.249

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    128E

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    255

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1992

  • Stieglitz in the Darkroom, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, October 4, 1992–February 14, 1993

Bibliography

2002

  • Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 255.

Inscriptions

by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, center verso, in graphite: Ex 1932; lower left verso: 1897
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 128E

Wikidata ID

Q64034758

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

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:

1932, New York (no. 36, as Night—The Savoy, 1897)

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