Interpretation
1919
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 x 19.1 cm (9 1/16 x 7 1/2 in.)
sheet: 25.2 x 20.1 cm (9 15/16 x 7 15/16 in.)
mat: 52.1 x 41.3 cm (20 1/2 x 16 1/4 in.) -
Accession
1980.70.127
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Stieglitz Estate Number
OK 41A
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Key Set Number
586
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1980.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2012
Inventing Abstraction, 1910–1925: How a Radical Idea Changed Modern Art, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2012–2013
Bibliography
1991
Peters, Sarah Whitaker. Becoming O'Keeffe: The Early Years. New York, 1991: pl. 9.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 586.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on print, center left verso, in graphite: W / H / Rough; center right verso: Figure / S g
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left, in graphite: Treated by Steichen; lower left verso: OK 41A
by later hand, center verso, in graphite: K / OK / 41A
Wikidata ID
Q64037150
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
O’Keeffe’s painting Music—Pink & Blue No. 1, 1918, and sculpture Abstraction, 1916, are depicted here (Lynes 257 and 66).
Another print made from the same negative in the “Waste Basket Collection” at New Haven (YCAL MSS 85, box 146, frame 28), is inscribed: Statuette and Abstraction by Georgia O’Keeffe / Photo by Alfred Stieglitz / With permission An American Place.
Paul Rosenfeld identified this photograph and Key Set number 585 in his review of Stieglitz’s 1921 exhibition: “A tiny phallic statuette weeps; is bowed over itself in weeping; while behind, like watered silk, there waves the sunlight of creation” (Paul Rosenfeld, “Stieglitz,” The Dial 70 [April 1921], 408–409).
For more information about this photograph, see Key Set number 584.
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 (nos. 144–145, as Interpretations, 1918–1920)