Donald Davidson
probably 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): 23 × 18.8 cm (9 1/16 × 7 3/8 in.)
mat: 56.5 × 46.5 cm (22 1/4 × 18 5/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.582
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Stieglitz Estate Number
80A
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Key Set Number
739
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1958
Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, March 16–April 27, 1958
Bibliography
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 739.
Inscriptions
by Doris Bry, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 80-A
by later hand, on mount, lower left, in graphite: Treated by Steichen- 6/1950
Wikidata ID
Q64035228
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
In the summer of 1922 O’Keeffe wrote Elizabeth Davidson that Stieglitz had recently made several prints including “a profile of Davidson . . . as a sweet looking young actor that all the ladies would just love” (Summer 1922, YCAL).
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 (no. 67, as Donald Davidson, 1922)