Shadows in Lake
1916
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 11.7 x 9 cm (4 5/8 x 3 9/16 in.)
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Accession
1949.3.383
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Stieglitz Estate Number
181B
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
439

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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. 439.
Inscriptions
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: 181 B
Wikidata ID
Q64034895
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
The shadows are those of Stieglitz and Abraham Walkowitz.
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. 77, as Shadows in Lake, 1916)