Songs of the Sky B3

1923

Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 11.9 × 9.3 cm (4 11/16 × 3 11/16 in.)
    sheet: 12.6 × 10.1 cm (4 15/16 × 4 in.)
    mount: 34.2 × 27.5 cm (13 7/16 × 10 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1949.3.856

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    157D

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    900

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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. 900.

Inscriptions

by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: Top / B3 [3 in subscript]; upper center verso: Top / B / 3 [crossed out] / 3; center left verso: B3 [3 in subscript]
by Georgia O'Keeffe, upper left verso, in graphite: 157-D

Wikidata ID

Q64035909

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

For more information about the date of this print, see Key Set number 898.

Other Collections

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

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, P.2014.105 (oriented 180°)

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