Songs of the Sky
1924
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): 11.9 x 9.2 cm (4 11/16 x 3 5/8 in.)
mount: 34.2 x 27.6 cm (13 7/16 x 10 7/8 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.917
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Stieglitz Estate Number
168D
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
1058
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2008
Notation, Akademie der Künste, Berlin; Zentrum Für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, 2008
Bibliography
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 1058.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, upper center verso, in graphite, underlined: Top; center left verso: Ex 1932 / A1; lower left verso: 1924 or 1925-?
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: 168D
by later hands, on mount, upper right verso, in blue pencil, circled: cc; lower right verso: D
Wikidata ID
Q64036047
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 93.XM.25.80
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: