Abraham Walkowitz
1916
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): 23.5 x 18.2 cm (9 1/4 x 7 3/16 in.)
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Accession
1949.3.386
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Stieglitz Estate Number
54C
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
437
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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. 437.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: Exhibition 1921; center verso: A Walkowitz 1916 / Exhibition 1921
by later hand, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 54 C
Wikidata ID
Q64034898
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
Abraham Walkowitz studied art at both Cooper Union in New York and Académie Julian in Paris. Through his friendship with Marsden Hartley he met Stieglitz in 1912 and became his dedicated assistant at 291 during the war years. He helped organize the first children’s art exhibition at 291 and had four one-person shows there as well. His friendship with Stieglitz cooled in the late 1910s.
Abraham Walkowitz visited Lake George in September 1916.
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:
George Eastman Museum, Rochester, 74:0052:0054
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 52.1802
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 219.1944
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. 28, as Abraham Walkowitz, 1913)