Old and New New York
1910, printed 1911
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
photogravure
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 20.3 × 15.8 cm (8 × 6 1/4 in.)
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Accession
1949.3.1278.34
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Copyright
Image courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Key Set Number
344
Associated Artworks
See all 16 artworksCamera Work: Vol.9: Numbers 33, 34/35, 36
Alfred Stieglitz
1911
The Steerage
Alfred Stieglitz
1907
City of Ambition
Alfred Stieglitz
1910
Alfred Stieglitz
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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. 344.
Wikidata ID
Q64037817
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
The view looks east from 34th Street and Fifth Avenue. The catalogue for Stieglitz’s 1944 exhibition at Philadelphia identifies the figure in the foreground as Max Weber.
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. 443, as Old and New New York, 34th Street, 1910, photogravure)
1913, New York (no. 23, as Old and New New York, 1910)
1944, Philadelphia (no. 22, as New York Old and New, 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. 6 (ill., Old and New New York, 1910)
Note
Image courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art