Georgia O'Keeffe—Hands and Breasts

1919

Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    palladium print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 18.4 x 23.4 cm (7 1/4 x 9 3/16 in.)
    sheet: 20.2 x 25.3 cm (7 15/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
    mat: 50.3 x 40.9 cm (19 13/16 x 16 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1980.70.112

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    OK 30C

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    580

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1980.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1992

  • Two Lives: O’Keeffe by Stieglitz 1917–1923, J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, CA, June 30–September 13, 1992

Bibliography

2002

  • Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 580.

Inscriptions

by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left, in graphite: Treated by Steichen 1949; lower left verso: OK 30C
by later hand, lower center verso, in graphite: K / OK 30C

Wikidata ID

Q64037116

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

The dates for this photograph and Key Set numbers 578, 579, and 581 are based on similarities to Key Set number 576.

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 1921, New York (nos. 138–140, as Hands and Breasts, 1918–1920)

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