Songs of the Sky Q4
1923
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): 11.8 x 9.2 cm (4 5/8 x 3 5/8 in.)
mount: 34.2 x 27.5 cm (13 7/16 x 10 13/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.841
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Stieglitz Estate Number
231B
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Key Set Number
918
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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
Bibliography
1983
Greenough, Sarah, and Juan Hamilton. Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings. Washington, 1983: no. 134.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 918.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: Q4 [crossed out] / Q4
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: 231B
Wikidata ID
Q64035875
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
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:
George Eastman Museum, Rochester, 74:0052:0029
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 28.128.3 (oriented 180° and inscribed: Equivalent—1923 / Alfred Stieglitz. / 1923)
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1988.566