Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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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
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Stieglitz Estate Number
201E
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Key Set Number
614
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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]).