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): 11.3 x 8.8 cm (4 7/16 x 3 7/16 in.)
    mount: 34.2 x 27.8 cm (13 7/16 x 10 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1949.3.1153

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    167E

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    943

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2012

  • Starstruck: The Fine Art of Astrophotography, Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME, 2012

Bibliography

2002

  • Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 943.

Inscriptions

by later hands, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: 167E; lower right verso: 167E

Wikidata ID

Q64036579

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

This photograph and Key Set number 942 are made from the same negative, but have different Estate numbers.

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