John Marin
1921/1922
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: 23.6 × 18.5 cm (9 5/16 × 7 5/16 in.)
sheet: 25.2 × 20.1 cm (9 15/16 × 7 15/16 in.)
mount: 56.3 × 45.6 cm (22 3/16 × 17 15/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.513
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Stieglitz Estate Number
35B
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
710
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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: pl. 11.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 710.
Inscriptions
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left, in graphite: Treated by Steichen 1949; lower left verso, in graphite: 35 B
by later hand, center verso, in graphite: R [star] / K / 35 B
Wikidata ID
Q64035081
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
Although Stieglitz must have made the negatives for this photograph and Key Set numbers 706, 707, 708, and 709 during the same sitting, he inscribed some prints 1921, others 1922.
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, 1949.721 [gelatin silver]
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 554.1960
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. 64–66, as John Marin, 1922)