Charles Demuth
1923
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: 18.7 x 24.1 cm (7 3/8 x 9 1/2 in.)
sheet: 20.2 x 25.3 cm (7 15/16 x 9 15/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.584
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Stieglitz Estate Number
85C
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
845
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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. 2, cat. 845.
Inscriptions
by Doris Bry, on mount, lower left, in graphite: Treated by Steichen; lower left verso: 85 C
by later hand, on mount, lower right verso, in graphite: 060
Wikidata ID
Q64035231
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
For more information about this photograph, see Key Set number 842.
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. 74 and 75, as Charles Demuth, 1923)
possibly 1932, New York (nos. 79a and 79b, as Charles Demuth, 1924)