Kitty Stieglitz

possibly 1908

Alfred Stieglitz

Associated Names
Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

In the image is a young girl standing next to a tree, with one arm wrapped around it while holding a branch with green leaves. She has a serious expression and long, dark wavy hair with a bow. She is wearing a light-colored, long-sleeved dress with lace details. The background is blurred, depicting a natural outdoor setting.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    Autochrome

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 16.5 × 11.5 cm (6 1/2 × 4 1/2 in.)
    overall: 17.8 × 12.7 cm (7 × 5 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1949.3.299

  • Key Set Number

    328

The image shows a man leaning his head on his hand, positioned with his face resting on his left hand. He has a mustache, thin-framed eyeglasses, and thick, greying hair that curls slightly at the edges. He is dressed in a formal jacket, a white shirt, and a black bow tie. The background is a soft, dark blur.

Alfred Stieglitz

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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. 328.

Wikidata ID

Q64034809

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

In a conversation with Stieglitz, Nancy Newhall recorded that, “In 1908 he [Stieglitz] photographed her [Kitty] again, long curls, hair ribbon, starched, frilly summer dress, in Autochrome, a new color process he, Steichen, and Eugene were experimenting with” (19 March 1942, in Nancy Newhall, unpublished manuscript, 45, copy in NGA files).

A variant is at George Eastman Museum, Rochester (74:0052:0079).

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