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 27.6 cm (13 7/16 x 10 7/8 in.) -
Accession Number
1949.3.876
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Stieglitz Estate Number
161D
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Key Set Number
912
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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. 912.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, upper center verso, in graphite: Top; center left verso: D8 [8 in subscript]
by later hands, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: 161D; lower left verso: 8; lower right verso: 161D
Wikidata ID
Q64035954
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
For information about the date of this photograph, see Key Set number 905.
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 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 49.55.25 (inscribed: Top / 5)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 24.1733.5 (inscribed: Song of the Sky / (in five pictures) / no. 5 / Photograph by / Alfred Stieglitz / New York / Negative & Print / made by / Alfred Stieglitz / at Lake George, N.Y. / 1923 / Print 2 from this negative)
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 86.XM.622.1