Lake George
1922/1927
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): 19.2 × 24.1 cm (7 9/16 × 9 1/2 in.)
mount: 56.7 × 41 cm (22 5/16 × 16 1/8 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.826
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Stieglitz Estate Number
17D
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Key Set Number
814
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1983
Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, February 3–May 8, 1983; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June 17–August 14, 1983; The Art Institute of Chicago, October 18, 1983–January 3, 1984
1995
Alfred Stieglitz at Lake George, Museum of Modern Art, New York, September 14, 1995–January 2, 1996
1999
Photographs from the Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1999
2002
Alfred Stieglitz: Known and Unknown, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, June 2–September 2, 2002; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 6, 2002–January 5, 2003
Bibliography
1983
Greenough, Sarah, and Juan Hamilton. Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings. Washington, 1983: no. 113.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 814.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, upper right verso, in graphite: A1 Plus / Swell Print
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 17D
by later hand, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 2
Wikidata ID
Q64035840
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