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
sheet (trimmed to image): 24.1 × 19.2 cm (9 1/2 × 7 9/16 in.)
mount: 56.6 × 46.5 cm (22 5/16 × 18 5/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.576
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Stieglitz Estate Number
47C
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Key Set Number
847
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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. 847.
Inscriptions
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 47 C
Wikidata ID
Q64035214
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
O’Keeffe’s painting Lake George with Crows, 1921 (Lynes 358), 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:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, YCAL MSS 85, box 124, folder 2469
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1997-146-70
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 1932, New York (no. 86, as Sherwood Anderson, 1924)