Georgia O'Keeffe—Hands
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: 24.4 × 19.5 cm (9 5/8 × 7 11/16 in.)
sheet: 25.1 × 20.3 cm (9 7/8 × 8 in.)
mount: 36.6 × 31.7 cm (14 7/16 × 12 1/2 in.) -
Accession
1990.117.2
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Stieglitz Estate Number
OK 25E
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Key Set Number
569
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation, Abiquiu, NM; gift to NGA, 1990.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1995
Recent Acquisitions of Works of Art on Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1995
Bibliography
1991
Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991: 302.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 569.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, lower left, in graphite: c; upper right verso, in graphite: OK25E / 1 or 2?
Wikidata ID
Q64037524
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
The date is based on its relationship to Key Set number 566.
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, 74:0052:0063 [gelatin silver]
Library of Congress, Washington, PH-18B [gelatin silver]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1997.61.18
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
The Bluff Collection
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1975-26-2
Private collection, San Francisco
Lifetime Publications
A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
Waldo Frank et al., America & Alfred Stieglitz (New York, 1934): pl. 30c (ill., Hands of Georgia O’Keeffe—No. 26, 1919)
Robert W. Marks, “Man with a Cause,” Coronet 4 (September 1938): 164 (ill., Hands of Georgia O’Keeffe, 1918)
“Speaking of Pictures . . . These are by one of Photography’s Pioneers,” Life 14:14 (5 April 1943): 9 (ill., untitled)
Thomas Craven, “Stieglitz—Old Master of the Camera,” Saturday Evening Post 216:28 (8 January 1944): 15 (ill., untitled)