Sherwood Anderson
1923
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
image (visible): 19.1 × 23.6 cm (7 1/2 × 9 5/16 in.)
mat: 56.5 × 45.9 cm (22 1/4 × 18 1/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.572
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Stieglitz Estate Number
46C
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Key Set Number
851
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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. 2, cat. 851.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, in graphite: Sherwood Anderson, 1923 / Stieglitz Exhibition 1923 / Anderson Galleries
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 46C
Wikidata ID
Q64035208
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
O’Keeffe’s painting The White Wave, 1922 (Lynes 383), exhibited in 1923 at the Anderson Galleries, is in the background.
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, 1949.724
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 2016.101.423
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:
1923, New York (nos. 76-77, as Sherwood Anderson, 1923)
possibly 1932, New York (no. 86, as Sherwood Anderson, 1924)