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Sarah Greenough, “Alfred Stieglitz/The Dancing Trees/1922,” Alfred Stieglitz Key Set, NGA Online Editions, https://purl.org/nga/collection/artobject/35627 (accessed December 04, 2024).

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Key Set Entry

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    gelatin silver print
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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:

The Art Institute of Chicago, 1949.772

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 28.127.7

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 24.1734 (inscribed: The Dancing Trees / 1922)

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 52.1804

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:

probably 1923, New York (nos. 92–94, as Trees, 1921–1922)
1930, Cambridge (no. 113, as The Dancing Trees, 1922)
1932, New York (no. 96, as Dancing Trees, 1921)

Lifetime Publications

A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:

A. K. C. [Ananda K. Coomaraswamy], “A Gift from Mr. Stieglitz,” Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin 22 (April 1924): 14 (ill., Birch Stems)

Provenance

Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

O'Keeffe, Georgia

Exhibition History

1958
Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, March 16–April 27, 1958
1983
Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, February 3–May 8, 1983; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June 17–August 14, 1983; The Art Institute of Chicago, October 18, 1983–January 3, 1984
2001
Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2001

Bibliography

1958
Bry, Doris. Exhibition of Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1958: no. 73, pl. 12.
1983
Greenough, Sarah, and Juan Hamilton. Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings. Washington, 1983: no. 107, pl. 51.
2000
Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001: no. 90.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 779.

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