Kitty
1905
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
platinum print processed with mercury
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 22.8 × 18.4 cm (9 × 7 1/4 in.)
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Accession
1949.3.283
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Stieglitz Estate Number
93E
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
305
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Bibliography
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 305.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, lower left, in graphite: Kitty / AS.
by later hand, center verso, in graphite: 12g
Wikidata ID
Q64034794
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
Bill Schubart [platinum?]
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:
1905, London (no. 232, as Katherine)
Lifetime Publications
A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
Camera Work 12 (October 1905): pl. 6 (ill., Katherine, 1905)
C. R. Carter, “The Two Great Exhibitions,” Photograms of the Year (New York, 1906): 129 (ill., Katherine)