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Sarah Greenough, “Alfred Stieglitz/The Dying Chestnut Tree/1927,” Alfred Stieglitz Key Set, NGA Online Editions, https://purl.org/nga/collection/artobject/35824 (accessed October 04, 2024).

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Key Set Entry

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Remarks

“Even made an 8 x 10 of the old Chestnut Tree yesterday” (Stieglitz to Herbert Seligmann, 31 October 1927, YCAL).

Other Collections

A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):

Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, 2003.1.12

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:

possibly 1932, New York (nos. 91–92, as The Dying Chestnut Tree—My Teacher, 1926)

Inscription

by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: 1927 [underlined]

by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, bottom left verso, in graphite: 42 E

Provenance

Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

O'Keeffe, Georgia

Bibliography

2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 1191.

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