Katherine (Lake George Cook)

1921

Alfred Stieglitz

Associated Names
Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

The image displays a woman standing with a broad smile. She has short curly hair partly covered by a cap. She is wearing a dark sleeveless outfit resembling a vintage swimsuit. The background contains dense foliage with pine branches and grass.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to image): 11.3 × 8.8 cm (4 7/16 × 3 7/16 in.)
    mount: 33.2 × 26.7 cm (13 1/16 × 10 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1949.3.607

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    233C

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    694

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.

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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. 1, cat. 694.

Inscriptions

by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: 233 C

Wikidata ID

Q64035280

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

“Last night I developed 36 snaps. Some of them I hoped would turn out well.—Snaps are always much of a gamble [including some of] our own Irish cook with her more than Rubenesque figure—an abdomen as I had been waiting to photograph for ages.—The abdomen in this case was in a bathing suit” (Stieglitz to Herbert Seligmann, 2 October 1921 [YCAL]).

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