An Icy Night
1898, printed 1929/1932
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 9 x 11.6 cm (3 9/16 x 4 9/16 in.)
sheet: 10.1 x 15.1 cm (4 x 5 15/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.255
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Stieglitz Estate Number
129D
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
259
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1958
Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, March 16–April 27, 1958
1984
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1984
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. 259.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, center verso, in graphite: Ex 1932
by later hands, on mount, upper right verso, in red pencil, underlined: 2; lower right verso, in graphite: 013
Wikidata ID
Q64034764
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Stieglitz Collections
A corresponding print was given to the following institution(s) by Alfred Stieglitz during his lifetime, or was received or acquired from the estate:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 49.55.7
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1997-146-118