Lake George

1926

Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to image): 9.1 × 11.9 cm (3 9/16 × 4 11/16 in.)
    mount: 34.6 × 27.6 cm (13 5/8 × 10 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1949.3.667

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    236E

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    1153

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2016

  • Georgia O'Keeffe, Tate Modern, London, July 6–October 30, 2016; Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna, December 7, 2016–March 26, 2017; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, April 22–July 30, 2017

Bibliography

2002

  • Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 1153.

Inscriptions

by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 1926.
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: 236E
by unknown hand, on mount, center right verso, in graphite: L. G. / 5. [circled]

Wikidata ID

Q64035441

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

The mount of this photograph is inscribed in an unknown hand: L. G. 5. Because of its similarity to Stieglitz’s inscription on Key Set number 1155, this inscription may indicate a grouping that Stieglitz himself constructed.

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