Going to the Start
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: 21.2 × 19 cm (8 3/8 × 7 1/2 in.)
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Accession
1949.3.1272.36
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Copyright
Image courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Key Set Number
291
Associated Artworks
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1894
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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. 291.
Wikidata ID
Q64037876
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
Morris Park, a horse track in the Bronx, was converted to an automobile race course after the 1904 thoroughbred racing season.
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. 45, as Going to the Start)
1905, Berlin (no. 56, as Going to the Start)
1905, Portland (no. 24, as A Proof—Going to the Start)
1905, London (no. 132, as Going to the Post)
1905, Worcester (no. 388, as Going to the Post)
1905, New York, Photo-Secession (no. 82, as Going to the Post)
1906, Paris (no. 621, as Le Galop d’essai)
1906, Philadelphia (no. 117, as Going to the Post)
1906, Cincinnati (no. 63, as Going to the Post)
1909, New York (no. 186, as Race Track, 1904)
1909, Dresden (no. 169, as The Race Track)
1910, Buffalo (no. 435, as Going to the Post, Morris Park, 1904, photogravure)
1913, New York (no. 16, as Going to the Post, Morris Park, 1904)
1915, New York (as The Race Track)
1944, Philadelphia (no. 19, as Going to the Post—Morris Park, 1904)
Lifetime Publications
A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
Camera Work 12 (October 1905): pl. 3 (ill., Going to the Start, 1904)
“A Farewell Visit to the Two London Exhibitions,” The Amateur Photographer 42 (31 October 1905): 355 (sketch of photograph, Going to the Post)
Charles Holme, ed., Art in Photography (London, 1905): pl. us.xvii (ill., Going to the Post)
R. Child Bayley, ed., The Complete Photographer (New York, 1906): opp. 280 (ill., Going to the Start)
J. Nilsen Laurvik, “Alfred Stieglitz, Pictorial Photographer,” The International Studio 44:174 (August 1911): 24 (ill., Going to the Post)
Note
Image courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art