Joseph T. Keiley
1911/1912
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
platinum print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 23.4 x 18.4 cm (9 3/16 x 7 1/4 in.)
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Accession
1949.3.338
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Stieglitz Estate Number
33A
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Key Set Number
372
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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. 372.
Inscriptions
by later hand, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 33 A
Wikidata ID
Q64034850
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
A Wall Street lawyer who lived in Brooklyn, Keiley was one of Stieglitz’s closest colleagues from 1898 to 1914. An amateur photographer, he collaborated with Stieglitz on the refinement of the glycerine process for local development of platinum prints. Stieglitz enlisted Keiley’s help as associate editor first of Camera Notes and later Camera Work. Keiley steadfastly supported Stieglitz’s endeavors until his death in 1914, even though he had little sympathy with modern European art. On 25 December 1913 Stieglitz inscribed a copy of Camera Work to Keiley, writing, “Photography has had many photographers. Photography has had but few friends. Amongst the photographers there were but few real men. To one of the few who was and is a friend of photography, as I understand the term. Above all to one who is a man” (private collection, copy in NGA files).
The date is based on the composition and type of photographic materials.
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:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, YCAL MSS 85, box 124, folder 2478
George Eastman Museum, Rochester, 74:0052:0056 (inscribed: Joseph T. Keiley, 1909 / Exhibition 1921)
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:
1921, New York (no. 22, as Joseph T. Keiley, 1907)