Margaret Naumburg

1920

Alfred Stieglitz

Associated Names
Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

This grayscale photograph is a close-up portrait of a woman seen from the chest up. She is turned towards the camera, her eyes looking off to the left. She has long, dark hair, deep-set eyes with dark circles under them, a straight nose, and slightly downturned lips. She is wearing a loose garment and multiple beaded necklaces around her neck. The background is dark and out of focus, with a strip of white on the far left, perhaps suggesting a doorway or a wall.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    palladium print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • 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 Number

    1949.3.514

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    36A

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    640

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. 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)

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