The Steerage
1907, printed in or before 1913
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
photogravure on cream moderately thick smooth wove Japanese paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 33.2 x 26.4 cm (13 1/16 x 10 3/8 in.)
sheet: 46.3 x 31.9 cm (18 1/4 x 12 9/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.292
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Stieglitz Estate Number
125D
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
312
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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
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
1989
On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: 150 Years of Photography, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May 7–July 30, 1989; The Art Institute of Chicago, September 16–November 26, 1989; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 21, 1989–February 25, 1990
1992
Stieglitz in the Darkroom, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, October 4, 1992–February 14, 1993
2001
Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2001
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. 35, pl. 18.
1989
Greenough, Sarah, Joel Snyder, David Travis, and Colin Westerbeck. On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington; Art Institute of Chicago, 1989: pl. 186.
2000
Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001: no. 30.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 312.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on backing board, center verso, on Collection of Alfred Stieglitz label, in black ink: Alfred Stieglitz The Steerage / Original Gravure Proof / Exhibited at the Stieglitz Exhibition / Photo-Secession Gallery, 1913 / Never before publicly exhibited; left center, stamped in black ink: 25635
by later hand, on mount, lower right, in graphite: 3; on backing board, left center verso, in blue pencil: 429
Wikidata ID
Q64034802
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
For more information about this photograph, see Key Set number 310.
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:
Fisk University, Nashville, and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, ASC.2012.85
George Eastman Museum, Rochester, 74:0052:0064 C
Library of Congress, Washington, PH-12 B
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 33.43.419
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 50.830
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Ph-151
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 52.1796 (inscribed: AS A1 Print)