Icy Night (featured in ad for Goerz lenses)
1898, printed 1903
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
photogravure
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 12.8 × 15.9 cm (5 1/16 × 6 1/4 in.)
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Accession
1949.3.1270.42
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Copyright
Image courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Key Set Number
258
Associated Artworks
See all 4 artworksCamera Work: Vol.1: Numbers 1-4
Alfred Stieglitz
1903
The Street—Design for a Poster
Alfred Stieglitz
1900
The Flatiron
Alfred Stieglitz
1903
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. 258.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, upper left, printed: GOERZ; upper right: LENSES; lower left: The original of this celebrated / picture, “Icy Night,” exhib- / ited in the International Ex- / hibitions at London, Paris, / Turin, Brussels, Hamburg, / Philadelphia, etc., etc.,; lower right: was made in January, Eight- / een Hundred and Ninety- / eight, at one a.m., with a / Goerz Lens, Series III., full / opening, and an exposure of / three minutes.
Wikidata ID
Q64037867
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
This photogravure was produced as part of an advertisement for Goerz lenses.
Note
Image courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art