Savoy Hotel, New York
1897
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
platinum print with applied color
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 9.3 x 11.8 cm (3 11/16 x 4 5/8 in.)
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Accession
1949.3.256
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Stieglitz Estate Number
128D
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Key Set Number
253
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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
1992
Stieglitz in the Darkroom, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, October 4, 1992–February 14, 1993
2002
Alfred Stieglitz: Known and Unknown, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, June 2–September 2, 2002; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 6, 2002–January 5, 2003
Bibliography
1983
Greenough, Sarah, and Juan Hamilton. Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings. Washington, 1983: no. 28, pl. 14.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 253.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, center verso, in graphite: Savoy Hotel—N.Y. / 1898 / First Night Photograph / with animated Life
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 128D
by later hand, on mount, upper right verso, in red pencil, circled: S
Wikidata ID
Q64034765
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:
possibly 1897, New York, Knickerbocker (as The Plaza at Night, lantern slide)
possibly 1897, London, R.P.S. (no. 94, as The Plaza at Night, carbon)
Lifetime Publications
A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
Alfred Stieglitz, “In Re-Compensating Cover Glass,” Camera Notes 2:3 (January 1899): 90–91, figs. 1–3 (ill., untitled)
Alfred Stieglitz, “Lantern Slide Compensating Cover Glasses,” The American Amateur Photographer 11 (February 1899): 58, 60–61, figs. 1–3 (ill., untitled)
Charles DeKay, “The Photographer As Artist,” The New York Times Illustrated Magazine (4 June 1899): 6 (ill., Reflections, Night)
“Night Photography,” Photo Miniature 9 (January 1910): 360 (ill., The Plaza, 5th Avenue and 59th Street, New York)
Waldo Frank et al., America & Alfred Stieglitz (New York, 1934): pl. 25d (ill., Night, New York, 1897)