Georgia Engelhard

1922

Alfred Stieglitz

Associated Names
Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

The image shows a woman standing at the edge of a body of water. The water reaches her calves. She has a relaxed stance with one arm slightly bent and the other hanging by her side. Her face has soft features and her hair is wavy and short. The woman appears to be unclothed and there are no visible accessories. The background shows a serene landscape with distant hills or mountains under a clear sky.

Media Options

This object’s media is not available for download. Contact us about image usage.
Not on view See artworks now on view

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to image): 10.9 × 7.7 cm (4 5/16 × 3 1/16 in.)
    mount: 24.2 × 27.6 cm (9 1/2 × 10 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1949.3.587

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    266A

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

    Learn more

  • Key Set Number

    771

The image shows a man leaning his head on his hand, positioned with his face resting on his left hand. He has a mustache, thin-framed eyeglasses, and thick, greying hair that curls slightly at the edges. He is dressed in a formal jacket, a white shirt, and a black bow tie. The background is a soft, dark blur.

Alfred Stieglitz

Curious for more Alfred Stieglitz scholarship?

Discover over 1,000 artworks that the artist’s wife Georgia O’Keeffe termed his “Key Set” of prize photographs. Museum scholars have illuminated each work, his career, practices, and lifetime achievements.

Learn about the Key Set

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. 1, cat. 771.

Inscriptions

by later hand, on mount, lower right verso, in graphite: Loan 47.434 / port 1923

Wikidata ID

Q64035236

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

The date is based on a letter from Georgia Engelhard to Stieglitz, 6 October 1922 (YCAL).

You may be interested in

Loading Results