Margaret Treadwell
1921
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
palladium print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 24.1 x 18.9 cm (9 1/2 x 7 7/16 in.)
sheet: 25.1 x 19.9 cm (9 7/8 x 7 13/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.470
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Stieglitz Estate Number
83A
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Key Set Number
686
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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
Bibliography
1958
Bry, Doris. Exhibition of Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1958: 20.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 686.
Inscriptions
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left, in graphite: Treated by Steichen 1949; lower left verso: 83 A
by later hand, center verso, in graphite: K / 83 A
Wikidata ID
Q64034999
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
Margaret Treadwell was a friend of Stieglitz’s niece Georgia Engelhard.
“This morning I photographed Margaret Treadwell, the successor here of Connie Garland.—I did pretty well.—One rather fine thing. I guess I have really learnt much in the last few years” (Stieglitz to Herbert Seligmann, 29 August 1921 [YCAL]).
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, 24.1722 (inscribed: Portrait—Margaret Treadwell / Photograph by / Alfred Stieglitz / 1921 / Negative & Print made by / Alfred Stieglitz / 1923 / Print 2 from this negative)
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:
1923, New York (nos. 1–4, as Margaret Treadwell, 1921)