Margaret Naumburg
1920
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: 24.2 × 19.3 cm (9 1/2 × 7 5/8 in.)
sheet: 25.2 × 20.2 cm (9 15/16 × 7 15/16 in.)
mount: 56.6 × 46.2 cm (22 5/16 × 18 3/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.514
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Stieglitz Estate Number
36A
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
640
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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. 640.
Inscriptions
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left, in graphite: Treated by Steichen 1949; lower left verso: 36 A
by later hand, center verso, in graphite: [2 a?] / inside / K 36 A
Wikidata ID
Q64035082
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
Margaret Naumburg, wife of Waldo Frank, founded the Walden School in New York. She and Frank visited Lake George in the summer of 1920.
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:
1921, New York (nos. 89–90, as Margaret Naumburg, 1920)