Rebecca Salsbury Strand
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 (visible): 24.2 × 19.3 cm (9 1/2 × 7 5/8 in.)
mount: 56.8 × 45.9 cm (22 3/8 × 18 1/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.544
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Stieglitz Estate Number
33D
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
743
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2012
The Serial Portrait: Photography and Identity in the Last One Hundred Years: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, September 30–December 31, 2012
The Serial Portrait: Photography and Identity in the Last One Hundred Years: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, September 30–December 31, 2012
Bibliography
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 743.
Inscriptions
by Doris Bry, on mount, lower left, in graphite: Treated by Steichen—6/50
by later hand, center right verso, in graphite: K 33 D; on mount, lower left verso: 33 D
Wikidata ID
Q64035135
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
“I have some beautiful prints of you—& waxed—spotted—ready to be mounted. But they really need no mounting—no presentation. They just are. How you’ll like them as ‘Portraits’ I don’t know. As prints, as photographs, everyone will have to like them. They exist. So your work & kind willingness have not all been in vain. And I’m glad. And Paul will be glad too when he sees the results. They are entirely different from his things of you. Perhaps they will clarify some things” (Stieglitz to Rebecca Strand, 1 November 1922 [YCAL]).
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
Collection of Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee, New York
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. 16–21, as Rebecca Salsbury Strand, 1922)