Barn and Carriage
1922
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
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): 19.1 × 24 cm (7 1/2 × 9 7/16 in.)
mount: 57.1 × 46.3 cm (22 1/2 × 18 1/4 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.533
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Stieglitz Estate Number
81E
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Key Set Number
785
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1995
Alfred Stieglitz at Lake George, Museum of Modern Art, New York, September 14, 1995–January 2, 1996
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. 785.
2010
Annear, Judy, ed. Alfred Stieglitz: The Lake George Years. Exh. cat. Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2010.
Inscriptions
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 81E
Wikidata ID
Q64035109
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
“I’m still battling with the barn—a particular problem which I have not succeeded in solving—interior in shadow & exterior in full sunlight—proper exposure for exterior should be about two seconds, f/64 & interior would be about five minutes! (at least) Then too the sun must be at a particular angle & that happens only for a few minutes on very sunny mornings. And I’m only doing it so insistently because I started to get that picture. And when I’ve got it—if I ever get it—it won’t be particularly beautiful—or even interesting” (Stieglitz to Paul Strand, 7 September 1922 [YCAL and CCP]).