Military Parade, New York

1918, printed 1924/1937

Alfred Stieglitz

Associated Names
Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

This is a photograph of a parade with spectators lining the street. The image captures a march, where a procession moves diagonally across a street flanked by a large crowd on both sides. The crowd is dense, with a significant number of umbrellas open. The scene is monochromatic. The spectators wear hats typical of an earlier era. The composition emphasizes the contrast between the orderly formation of the marching figures and the more chaotic gathering of spectators.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to image): 9.3 × 11.7 cm (3 11/16 × 4 5/8 in.)
    mat: 33.4 × 26.6 cm (13 1/8 × 10 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1949.3.414

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    OK 129C

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    602

The image shows a man leaning his head on his hand, positioned with his face resting on his left hand. He has a mustache, thin-framed eyeglasses, and thick, greying hair that curls slightly at the edges. He is dressed in a formal jacket, a white shirt, and a black bow tie. The background is a soft, dark blur.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1989

  • David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence, RI, 1989

Bibliography

2002

  • Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 602.

Inscriptions

by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 129 C
by later hand, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 2

Wikidata ID

Q64034927

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

On a snowy 22 February 1918, during World War I, ten thousand US National Army draftees training at Camp Upton on Long Island came to New York and paraded down Fifth Avenue. Stieglitz wrote to O’Keeffe, “The scene was impressive—not so much because of the soldiers—but because of the black masses of people lining the Avenue + the silently falling snow on that mass—gradually turning everything into a great mass of moving black + whiteness . . . Our window gives us a perfect view of the Avenue” (YCAL).

In Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set, published in 2002, this photograph was incorrectly associated with a World War I victory parade and misdated “probably 1919.”

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