Katharine Dudley

1922

Alfred Stieglitz

Associated Names
Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

The image shows the lower body of a person seated with their legs crossed, wearing a dark dress with embellishments near the knee, sheer stockings, and flat shoes with bows. The background includes a dark, textured surface and a light-colored floor.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to image): 23.5 × 18.7 cm (9 1/4 × 7 3/8 in.)
    mount: 53 × 45.5 cm (20 7/8 × 17 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1949.3.493

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    93C

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    717

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

Bibliography

2002

  • Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 717.

Inscriptions

by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 93 C

Wikidata ID

Q64035050

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

Katharine Dudley was a teacher and artist who may have met O’Keeffe through their association with the Columbia University Teachers College.

“ . . . All day yesterday I tried to make some Palladios. Slaved all day. Some mean negatives. Just three or four—dense—fogged-over. I hate to have any negative beat me. And all summer I’ve been trying to coax these beauties into giving me at least one usable print. The foolishness of it. A silent fight between us. I feel the negatives will have the better of the argument. I am finally letting myself be counted ‘Out.’ It’s just a picture of legs at that—Katharine Dudley’s. And the new Davidson.—Interesting ideas—& a rather new treatment.—Isn’t one a fool?” (Stieglitz to Rebecca Strand, 23 August 1922 [YCAL]).

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:

possibly 1923, New York (nos. 12–15, as Katharine Dudley, 1922)

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