Portrait of Georgia, No. 2 or Songs of the Sky

1923

Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to image): 9.2 × 11.9 cm (3 5/8 × 4 11/16 in.)
    mount: 34.3 × 27.6 cm (13 1/2 × 10 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1949.3.889

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    163B

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    921

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

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

2016

  • Georgia O'Keeffe, Tate Modern, London, July 6–October 30, 2016; Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna, December 7, 2016–March 26, 2017; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, April 22–July 30, 2017

Bibliography

2002

  • Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 921.

Wikidata ID

Q64035980

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

The Stieglitz Estate list identifies this print as Portrait of Georgia, No. 2 and indicates it is part of a series with Key Set numbers 920 and 922.

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:

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 24.1733.1 (print made from flipped negative and inscribed: Song of the Sky / [in five pictures] / no. 1 / Photograph by / Alfred Stieglitz / New York / Negative & Print / made at Lake George, N.Y. / by Alfred Stieglitz, / 1923. / Print 2 from this negative)

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:

probably 1924, New York (no. 21, as Portrait—G.O.)

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