The Hay Wagon
1922
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: 19.1 x 24.2 cm (7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.)
sheet: 20 x 25 cm (7 7/8 x 9 13/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.619
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Stieglitz Estate Number
19E
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Key Set Number
782
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1995
Alfred Stieglitz at Lake George, Museum of Modern Art, New York, September 14, 1995–January 2, 1996
2002
Alfred Stieglitz: Known and Unknown, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, June 2–September 2, 2002; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 6, 2002–January 5, 2003
2004
Alfred Stieglitz and His Circle: 1905–1930, Musée d'Orsay, Paris; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2004–2005
Bibliography
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 782.
Inscriptions
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left, in graphite: Treated by Steichen 1949; lower left verso: 19E
Wikidata ID
Q64035311
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
“Do you know that the hay crop was a real winner this year. Hay stored—packed in everywhere. I believe some in my head too. —” (Stieglitz to Rebecca Strand, 19 August 1922 [YCAL]).
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:
1923, New York (no. 88, as The Hay Wagon, 1922)