The Hand of Man
1902, printed 1910
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
photogravure on beige thin slightly textured laid Japanese paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 24.2 x 31.8 cm (9 1/2 x 12 1/2 in.)
sheet: 27.2 x 50 cm (10 11/16 x 19 11/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.269
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Stieglitz Estate Number
123A
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Key Set Number
278
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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. 33, pl. 15.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 278.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on backing board, center, on Collection of Alfred Stieglitz label, in black ink: Alfred Stieglitz The Hand of Man / Original Gravure / Original negative 4 x 5. Made from back of a train— / Long Island City 1902. The version printed / in 1910 straight from new positive / shown first Albright Show & then at / Stieglitz "291" show, March, 1913; upper right, typed on Museum of Modern Art sticker: 40.5022 / Stieglitz; upper right, typed on Philadelphia Museum of Art label: Alfred Stieglitz / The Hand of Man, 1902. Framed gravure / Alfred Stieglitz / 509 Madison Ave., N.Y.C.
by later hands, upper right, in red pencil: 7-1944-145; upper center, in graphite: 25 3/4; upper left: M; center left: 16
Wikidata ID
Q64034779
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
For more information about this photograph, see Key Set number 277.
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 Art Institute of Chicago, 1949.850
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, YCAL MSS 85, box 129, folder 2498
Fisk University, Nashville, and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, ASC.2012.84
Library of Congress, Washington, PH-10 B
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 49.55.9 (inscribed: “The Hand of Man” 1904 / Alfred Stieglitz)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 50.829
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1949-18-53
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 52.1795