Georgia O'Keeffe
1918
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
palladium print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 23.4 x 18.5 cm (9 3/16 x 7 5/16 in.)
sheet: 25.1 x 20.1 cm (9 7/8 x 7 15/16 in.)
mat: 56 x 45.7 cm (22 1/16 x 18 in.) -
Accession
1980.70.88
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Stieglitz Estate Number
OK 19E
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
499
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1980.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1958
Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, March 16–April 27, 1958
1983
Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, February 3–May 8, 1983; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June 17–August 14, 1983; The Art Institute of Chicago, October 18, 1983–January 3, 1984
1989
The Art of Photography, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1989
Bibliography
1965
Bry, Doris. Alfred Stieglitz: Photographer. Exh. cat. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1965: pl. 13.
1983
Greenough, Sarah, and Juan Hamilton. Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings. Washington, 1983: no. 75, pl. 38.
1991
Peters, Sarah Whitaker. Becoming O'Keeffe: The Early Years. New York, 1991: pl. 47.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 499.
Inscriptions
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: FF Ex
by Doris Bry, lower left, in graphite: Treated by Steichen for stain, 5/49; upper left verso, in graphite: 2 [in square]; upper center verso, in graphite: 9; lower left verso, in graphite: OK 19E
Wikidata ID
Q64037056
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:
The Art Institute of Chicago, 1949.745A
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1997.61.20
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 24.1724 (inscribed: Portrait—Georgia O’Keeffe / (no. 34) / Photograph by / Alfred Stieglitz / 1918 / Negative & Print / made by Alfred Stieglitz / Print no. 2 from this negative)
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Ph-140
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 91.XM.63.5
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:
1921, New York (no. 103, as A Woman, 1918–1920)
1932, New York (no. 76–78, as Georgia O’Keeffe, 1918–1923)