Long Underwear, Lake George
1924
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
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): 8.5 × 10.7 cm (3 3/8 × 4 3/16 in.)
mount: 34.2 × 27.5 cm (13 7/16 × 10 13/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.629
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Stieglitz Estate Number
265E
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
1034
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1983
Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, February 3–May 8, 1983; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June 17–August 14, 1983; The Art Institute of Chicago, October 18, 1983–January 3, 1984
Bibliography
1983
Greenough, Sarah, and Juan Hamilton. Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings. Washington, 1983: no. 112.
1990
Lowe, Sue Davidson. "Taken Lightly." Art & Antiques (Summer 1990): repro. 110.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 1034.
Inscriptions
by George O'Keeffe, on mount, top left verso, in graphite: 265 E
Wikidata ID
Q64035333
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
Several portraits of Ida O’Keeffe standing next to her long underwear are at Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven (YCAL MSS 85, box 148, folder 2747), one inscribed: Who is this maiden fair? / And why is she smiling? / May be she sees a bird—/ may be it’s just a photo- / graphic smile—/ Who is this maiden / with the raven hair? / What is hanging on the line?—/ Nothing—oh nothing / is hanging on the line—/ except a Smile—/ 1924/25 / Lake George. The other is inscribed: In Union / there is / Strength / and / A Smile.