Charles H. Caffin
probably 1915
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
platinum print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 24.3 x 19.2 cm (9 9/16 x 7 9/16 in.)
sheet: 35.1 x 20.2 cm (13 13/16 x 7 15/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.317
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Stieglitz Estate Number
51A
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
405
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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. 405.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, center, in graphite: [D?]
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 51 A
Wikidata ID
Q64034827
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington
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:
possibly 1921, New York (no. 41, as Charles H. Caffin, 1911)
Lifetime Publications
A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
The Photographic Journal of America 52:7 (July 1915): 330 (ill., Mr. Charles H. Caffin)