The Steerage

1907, printed 1911

Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    photogravure on beige thin slightly textured laid Japanese paper

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 19.7 x 15.8 cm (7 3/4 x 6 1/4 in.)
    sheet: 28 x 20 cm (11 x 7 7/8 in.)
    mount: 32.9 x 24.8 cm (12 15/16 x 9 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1949.3.294

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    125D

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    311

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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

Bibliography

1947

  • Cramer, Konrad. "Stupendous Stieglitz." PSA Journal 13 (November 1947): 722.

1950

  • Norman, Dorothy. "Alfred Stieglitz on Photography.” Magazine of Art 43 (December 1950): 301.

1951

  • Shiffman, Joseph. "The Alienation of the Artist: Alfred Stieglitz." American Quarterly 3 (Fall 1951): fig. 1.

2002

  • Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 311.

Wikidata ID

Q64034804

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

This is a proof of the photogravure that appeared in Camera Work 36 (October 1911), pl. 9.

For more information about this photograph, see Key Set number 310.

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