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): 11.3 x 8.9 cm (4 7/16 x 3 1/2 in.)
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Accession Number
1949.3.603
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Stieglitz Estate Number
198A
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Key Set Number
1041
Alfred Stieglitz
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1983
Lowe, Sue Davidson. Stieglitz: A Memoir/Biography. New York, 1983: pl. 18.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 1041.
Inscriptions
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: 198A
Wikidata ID
Q64035275
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
“I have two [photographs] of Peggy with beads & draped in her bathing towel ready for you. The small one in which she moved a trifle or rather in which the focus is not sharp. It’s nevertheless a delight. You’ll enjoy it. G. says it’s prophetic. Maybe. I don’t know anything outside of the fact that photographing is a torture to me & I know what I’m after . . .” Stieglitz to Elizabeth and Donald Davidson, 3 August 1924 (YCAL).
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
Collection of Betsy Karel
Location unknown