From "Room 303" (Intimate Gallery)—489 Park Avenue—New York

1927

Alfred Stieglitz

Associated Names
Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

The image shows a tall building under construction with scaffolding around the top. The perspective is from street level looking up at the tower, focusing on its height and vertical structure. Surrounding buildings can be seen below, with various architectural styles in black and white. Shadows from the buildings fall on their facades, and the sky is a soft gray background.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to image): 12 x 6.3 cm (4 3/4 x 2 1/2 in.)
    mount: 31.9 x 25.2 cm (12 9/16 x 9 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1949.3.1190

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    136E

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    1184

The image shows a man leaning his head on his hand, positioned with his face resting on his left hand. He has a mustache, thin-framed eyeglasses, and thick, greying hair that curls slightly at the edges. He is dressed in a formal jacket, a white shirt, and a black bow tie. The background is a soft, dark blur.

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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. 1184.

Inscriptions

by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: From "Room 303" (Intimate Gallery)—489 Park Ave, N.Y.— / April—1927
by later hands, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 136E; lower right verso: D

Wikidata ID

Q64036671

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

The Sherry-Netherland Hotel on the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue and 59th Street was completed in mid-1927. In this photograph and Key Set numbers 1185, 1186, and 1187 Stieglitz photographed it looking west from the Intimate Gallery.

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:

possibly 1932, New York (no. 29, as From my window at Intimate Gallery—west, 1928)

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