Snapshot—In the New York Central Yards
1903, printed 1907
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
photogravure
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 19.3 × 15.6 cm (7 5/8 × 6 1/8 in.)
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Accession
1949.3.1274.37
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Copyright
Image courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Key Set Number
284
Associated Artworks
Camera Work: Vol.5: Numbers 17-20
Alfred Stieglitz
1907
Snapshot—From My Window, Berlin
Alfred Stieglitz
1904
Snapshot—From My Window, New York
Alfred Stieglitz
1902
Alfred Stieglitz
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Bibliography
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 284.
Wikidata ID
Q64037897
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
This photograph of a train departing from Grand Central Terminal was probably made from the 48th Street footbridge, which crossed over the railroad yard.
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:
1906, New York, Photo-Secession (no. 71, as The Railroad Yard—Winter)
1907, New York (no. 79, as In the Grand Central Yards)
1908, New York (no. 109, as Central Yards)
1909, New York (no. 185, as The Railroad Yard—Winter, 1903)
1909, Dresden (no. 173, as The Railroad Hard [sic], Winter)
1910, Buffalo (no. 434, as Railroad Yard, Winter, New York, 1903, photogravure)
1913, New York (no. 15, as In the New York Central Yards, 1903)
1914, London, R.P.S. (no. 69, as N.Y. Central Yards—A Snapshot)
1921, New York (no. 18, as Railroad-Yard, N.Y., 1903)
1944, Philadelphia (no. 18, as In the N.Y. Central Yards, 1903, photogravure)
Lifetime Publications
A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
Camera Work 20 (October 1907): pl. 3 (ill., Snapshot—In the New York Central Yards)
Charles Holme, ed., Color Photography and Other Recent Developments in the Art of the Camera (London, 1908): no. 101 (ill., In the New York Central Yards—Snapshot)
Photograms of the Year (London, 1908): 113 (ill., In the New York Central Yards)
Camera Work 36 (October 1911): pl. 14 (ill., In the New York Central Yards, 1903)
Note
Image courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art