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Sarah Greenough, “Alfred Stieglitz/The Steerage/1907, printed 1915,” Alfred Stieglitz Key Set, NGA Online Editions, https://purl.org/nga/collection/artobject/35444 (accessed December 12, 2024).

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Key Set Entry

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Remarks

This gravure, published as an insert in the deluxe edition of the September–October 1915 issue of 291, was also available in a regular edition, printed on a moderately thick wove Japan paper.

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:

The Art Institute of Chicago, 1949.847 (inscribed: Stieglitz—1907, “The Steerage”)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 49.55.13

National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Ph-178

Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1949-18-50

Inscription

by Alfred Stieglitz, lower left, in graphite: The Steerage 1907 / Alfred Stieglitz; on mount: lower left verso, on An American Place label, in black ink: The Steerage—1907 (original gravure) / by Alfred Stieglitz

by later hands, on mount, lower right, in graphite: Alfred Stieglitz / The Steerage / 1907 / (Large photogravure); lower center, in graphite: Bry # 125 D; lower right, in graphite: 14 x 10 7/8 / 3 / 3 1/2 6 / 20 1/2 x 16 7/8 / 067; lower left verso, in graphite: 125 D

Provenance

Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

O'Keeffe, Georgia

Exhibition History

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. 313.

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