Horses
1904, printed 1905
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
photogravure
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 18.1 × 23 cm (7 1/8 × 9 1/16 in.)
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Accession
1949.3.1272.34
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Copyright
Image courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Key Set Number
296
Associated Artworks
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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. 296.
Wikidata ID
Q64037873
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
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:
1905, Vienna, Camera Klub (no. 43, as Pferde)
1905, Berlin (no. 54, as Pferde)
1905, New York, Camera Club (as Horses)
1905, New York, Photo-Secession (no. 83, as Horses)
1905, London (no. 172, as Horses)
1906, Paris (no. 623, as Horses)
1906, Philadelphia (no. 118, as Horses)
1909, Dresden (not listed in catalogue, see inscription for Key Set number 297)
1914, London, R.P.S. (no. 68, as Horses)
Lifetime Publications
A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
“Internationale Ausstellung Ausgewählter Kunstlerischer Photographien,” [exh. cat., Camera Klub, Wien] (Vienna, 1905): unnumbered
Roland Rood, “The Camera Club (New York) Exhibition. A Dissertation on Planes,” The American Amateur Photographer 17:6 (June 1905): 271 (ill., Horses)
Camera Work 12 (October 1905), pl. 1 (ill., Horses, 1904)
Die Photographische Kunst im Jahre 1905: Ein Jahrbuch für Künstlerische Photographie: 24 (ill., Pferde)
C. Howard Conway, “The Artist of the Camera,” Munsey’s Magazine 35 (September 1906): 697 (ill., Horses)
Charles Holme, ed., Color Photography and Other Recent Developments in the Art of the Camera (London, 1908): no. 99 (ill., Horses)
Note
Image courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art