Georgia O'Keeffe—Hands
1918, printed 1929/1934
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): 11.2 x 8.7 cm (4 7/16 x 3 7/16 in.)
mount: 34.5 x 27.5 cm (13 9/16 x 10 13/16 in.) -
Accession
1980.70.43
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Stieglitz Estate Number
OK 515C
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
533
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1980.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1992
Two Lives: Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz—A Conversation in Painting and Photographs, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, December 2, 1992–April 4, 1993; IBM Gallery of Science and Art, New York, April 27–June 26, 1993; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, July 17–September 12, 1993; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 2–December 5, 1993
Stieglitz in the Darkroom, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, October 4, 1992–February 14, 1993
Bibliography
1992
Arrowsmith, Alexandra, Thomas West, and Belinda Rathbone. Two Lives: A Conversation in Paintings and Photographs. Exh. cat. The Phillips Collection, Washington and New York, 1992: 32.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 533.
Inscriptions
by later hands, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: A better print than this?; lower right verso: 05
Wikidata ID
Q64036952
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
For information about the date of this photograph, see Key Set number 530.
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:
George Eastman Museum, Rochester, 74:0052:0048