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: 34.1 x 27.2 cm (13 7/16 x 10 11/16 in.) -
Accession Number
1949.3.939
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Stieglitz Estate Number
171E
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Key Set Number
1122
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1992
The Stieglitz Circle and Modernism in America, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1992
Bibliography
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 1122.
Inscriptions
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: 171E
by later hand, on mount, lower right verso, in graphite: D
Wikidata ID
Q64036103
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:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, YCAL MSS 85, box 121, folder 2436
George Eastman Museum, Rochester, 74:0052:0010
Library of Congress, Washington, PH-30 A (inscribed: Good / Top / A+1 / P. 1927 / N. 1925)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 28.128.9 (inscribed: Equivalent—1924 / Alfred Stieglitz. / 1924)
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1949-18-94 (inscribed: 1925)
The Phillips Collection, Washington, no. 1836
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
Collection of Richard and Ronay Menschel
Location unknown (inscribed: For Society [sic] Anonyme Exhibition / Brooklyn Museum / Equivalent No. 314 by Alfred Stieglitz / Will be called for after close of show / by George F. Of, N.Y. / For Anita Pollitzer / Who knows what feeling is— / and sees because of it. / “291”)
Location unknown (inscribed: Alfred Stieglitz / Equivalent 1927)
Location unknown
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:
1926, Brooklyn (no. 283, as Equivalent No. 314, 1925)