Legs, Lake George
1920/1922
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: 23.6 × 19.3 cm (9 5/16 × 7 5/8 in.)
sheet: 25 × 20 cm (9 13/16 × 7 7/8 in.)
mat: 56.3 × 44.1 cm (22 3/16 × 17 3/8 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.633
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Stieglitz Estate Number
57C
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Key Set Number
653
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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. 653.
Inscriptions
by Doris Bry, on mount, lower left, in graphite: Treated by Steichen—6/50; by Doris Bry [?], on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 57C
by later hand, center verso, in graphite: K / 57C
Wikidata ID
Q64035339
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
Carl Zigrosser, in a letter to James Johnson Sweeney, 4 April 1947, mentions a Stieglitz photograph of the back of the legs and knees of Mollie Higgins Smith, an artist. (Carl Zigrosser Papers, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia).