Hedwig Stieglitz

1919

Alfred Stieglitz

Associated Names
Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

The image displays the face and upper body of an elderly woman lying down. The woman has visible wrinkles, grey hair, and is wearing a dark shawl and a knitted scarf with stripes. She appears to be resting on a surface resembling a bed or couch, with a dark and blurred background.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to image): 8.9 × 11.6 cm (3 1/2 × 4 9/16 in.)
    mount: 34.3 × 27.3 cm (13 1/2 × 10 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1949.3.479

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    201E

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    614

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

2010

  • Alfred Stieglitz: The Lake George Years, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2010

Bibliography

2002

  • Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 614.

2010

  • Annear, Judy, ed. Alfred Stieglitz: The Lake George Years. Exh. cat. Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2010.

Inscriptions

by later hand, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: 201 E

Wikidata ID

Q64035018

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

“I’ve done little work recently—weather too mean. Made a few prints to-day—family chiefly. A pretty good portrait of my mother in bed.—Not important but very characteristic” (Stieglitz to Paul Strand, 5 September 1919 [YCAL and CCP]).

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