Hedwig Stieglitz and Katherine Herzig, Lake George

1919/1922

Alfred Stieglitz

Associated Names
Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

Two older women are walking on a dirt path outdoors. The woman on the left is hunched over with a walking cane, wearing a dark dress. The woman on the right is standing upright, wearing a light-colored full-length dress and leaning towards the other woman for support. The background includes greenery, bushes, and trees under a softly lit sky.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to image): 6.9 × 9 cm (2 11/16 × 3 9/16 in.)
    mount: 33.2 × 27 cm (13 1/16 × 10 5/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1949.3.447

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    197A

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    615

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

1995

  • Alfred Stieglitz at Lake George, Museum of Modern Art, New York, September 14, 1995–January 2, 1996

Bibliography

2002

  • Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 615.

Inscriptions

by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: 197A

Wikidata ID

Q64034964

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

Katherine Herzig was Hedwig Stieglitz’s maid.

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