The Dying Chestnut Tree—My Teacher
1927
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): 24 × 19.1 cm (9 7/16 × 7 1/2 in.)
mount: 55.2 × 45.7 cm (21 3/4 × 18 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.685
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Stieglitz Estate Number
27A
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
1194
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1958
Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, March 16–April 27, 1958
Bibliography
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 1194.
Inscriptions
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, bottom left verso, in graphite: 27-A; bottom right verso, in graphite: 27A
by later hand, on mount, lower right verso, in graphite: .88
Wikidata ID
Q64035488
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
See Key Set number 1191.
Stieglitz Collections
A corresponding print was given to the following institution(s) by Alfred Stieglitz during his lifetime, or was received or acquired from the estate:
The Art Institute of Chicago, 1949.781
Library of Congress, Washington, PH-33 B
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 49.55.43
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 50.841
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 52.1810
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, E.894-2003
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 2016.101.409
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)
Lifetime Publications
A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
Waldo Frank et al., America & Alfred Stieglitz (New York, 1934): pl. 32b (ill., Dying Chestnut Trees—Lake George, 1924)