From the Back-Window—291
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 (visible): 24.1 × 19.1 cm (9 1/2 × 7 1/2 in.)
mat: 52.1 × 40.2 cm (20 1/2 × 15 13/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.372
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Stieglitz Estate Number
90D
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Key Set Number
417
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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
1983
Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, February 3–May 8, 1983; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June 17–August 14, 1983; The Art Institute of Chicago, October 18, 1983–January 3, 1984
1989
The Art of Photography, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1989
2014
A Subtle Beauty: Platinum Photographs from the Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2014–2015
Bibliography
1965
Bry, Doris. Alfred Stieglitz: Photographer. Exh. cat. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1965: pl. 11.
1983
Greenough, Sarah, and Juan Hamilton. Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings. Washington, 1983: no. 46, pl. 21.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 417.
Inscriptions
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, bottom left verso, in graphite: 90D
Wikidata ID
Q64034884
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
The tall building in the background is 105 Madison Avenue, at the southeast corner of Madison and 30th Street. The shorter building with the advertisements on its side is 112 Madison Avenue, at the southwest corner of Madison and 30th Street.
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:
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 24.1738 (inscribed: From the Back Window of / “291”—New York—1915. / Photograph by / Alfred Stieglitz. / Negative & Print / made by Alfred Stieglitz / Print no. 3 made from this / negative.)
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
Private collection, San Francisco (inscribed: Alfred Stieglitz / From the Back Window, 291—N.Y., Winter—1915 / To Mr. & Mrs. Chas. J. Liebman—Alfred Stieglitz)
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 68.16
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. 46, as Buildings, Night, Snow, 1915, from the series “From the Back-Window—291”)
1930, Cambridge (no. 105, as From the Back Window of “291,” 1915)