The Ferry Boat

1910, printed 1911

Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    photogravure

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 20.9 × 16.3 cm (8 1/4 × 6 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1949.3.1278.31

  • Copyright

    Image courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art

  • Key Set Number

    331

Associated Artworks

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Camera Work: Vol.9: Numbers 33, 34/35, 36

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1911

The Steerage

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1907

City of Ambition

Alfred Stieglitz

1910

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1992

  • Stieglitz in the Darkroom, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, October 4, 1992–February 14, 1993

Bibliography

2002

  • Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 331.

Wikidata ID

Q64037813

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

The Bound Brook, part of the ferry fleet owned by the Central Railroad of New Jersey, shuttled commuters across the Hudson River between Liberty Street Terminal in lower Manhattan and Communipaw Terminal in Jersey City, New Jersey.

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:

1910, Buffalo (no. 445, as After Working Hours, The Ferry Boat, 1910, photogravure)
1913, New York (no. 25, as After Working Hours—The Ferry Boat, 1910)
1937, New York (no. 337, as The Ferry Boat, 1910, photogravure from Camera Work)
1944, Philadelphia (no. 24, as After Working Hours—The Ferry Boat, 1910)

Lifetime Publications

A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:

Camera Work 36 (October 1911): pl. 3 (ill., The Ferry Boat, 1910)

Note

Image courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art

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