Nearing Land
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: 21.5 × 17.4 cm (8 7/16 × 6 7/8 in.)
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Accession
1949.3.1272.38
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Copyright
Image courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Key Set Number
293
Associated Artworks
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1905
Going to the Start
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1904
Winter—Fifth Avenue
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1893
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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. 293.
Wikidata ID
Q64037879
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
Stieglitz probably made this photograph during the summer of 1904, while traveling in Europe.
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, London (no. 228, as Nearing Land)
1905, New York (no. 79, as Nearing Land)
Lifetime Publications
A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
Camera Work 12 (October 1905): pl. 5 (ill., Nearing Land, 1904)
Note
Image courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art