Barn, Carriage & Snow

1923

Alfred Stieglitz

Associated Names
Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

The image depicts a man standing partially in the doorway of a wooden barn or shed, shown from the knees up. He is positioned beside a horse-drawn carriage with only the man clearly visible as he stands with one arm resting on the carriage. The man has a mustache and is wearing a flat cap, and his outerwear is a long dark coat. Footwear is not visible because of the snow on the ground. There appear to be no visible objects in his hands. In the background, there is deep snow covering the ground outside, while the barn's wooden double doors are wide open, revealing the carriage inside. Snow blankets a fence and some other indistinct structures nearby the barn.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to image): 9.2 x 11.8 cm (3 5/8 x 4 5/8 in.)
    support: 34.3 x 27.8 cm (13 1/2 x 10 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1949.3.612

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    242A

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    867

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

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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. 2, cat. 867.

Inscriptions

by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, upper left, in graphite: 242A

Wikidata ID

Q64035294

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

Fred Varnum stands to the right of the carriage.

For more information about the snowstorm pictured here, see Key Set number 863.

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