Tree Set 1
probably 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): 11.3 × 9 cm (4 7/16 × 3 9/16 in.)
mount: 34.3 × 27.6 cm (13 1/2 × 10 7/8 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.684
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Stieglitz Estate Number
191B
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Key Set Number
1046
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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. 2, cat. 1046.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: 1; bottom right verso, in graphite: D.
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: Tree Set 2
by later hand, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: 191 B
Wikidata ID
Q64035487
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
“There is the old Chestnut Tree on the upper hill sticking in my system.—The tree is completely dead this year. A heroic figure. Most difficult to express. But I’ll make another attempt” (Stieglitz to Sherwood Anderson, 21 May 1924). “I am curious to see my old friend the Dying Chestnut on the Hill—What a wonder that lone tree is.—Maybe this year I’ll manage to get a real picture of that heroic figure. I have been ‘looking’ for years—& wondering how I can get it down.—I have tried and failed so often” (Stieglitz to Sherwood Anderson, 18 June 1924; both letters YCAL and Newberry Library). “Death alive everywhere. Marvellous [sic] trees dead—dying. A hero on the Hill dying for years—an old chestnut—now completely dead. Still a hero—” Stieglitz to Alfred Kreymborg, 9 June 1924 (YCAL).