Provenance

Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

Bibliography

2002

Inscriptions

by Alfred Stieglitz, on interleaving tissue, lower right, in graphite: Katwyk / 1894

Wikidata ID

Q64037646

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

Shortly after his 1894 trip to Europe, Stieglitz wrote of his experience photographing Katwijk aan Zee: “An hour distant from Amsterdam, the spires of the Casino at Scheveningen within sight, yet as far off as if hundreds of miles separated Katwyk from the capital city of Holland and its most famous watering place. As Gutach lives off its land Katwyk lives off the ocean. Fishermen and their boats, and the houses built to resist rude storms, are the themes here on which artists frame their poems, and the people are like the phase of nature that surrounds them. Immense in stature, hardy, brave beyond belief, stoical from long habit, seeing brother, father, son and husband leave on their perilous fishing trips far out in the North Sea, not knowing when or whether at all they will return, welcoming them with a simple handshake, no embrace, no tender kiss for the returning hero for hero he is” (with Louis H. Schubart, “Two Artists’ Haunts,” The Photographic Times 26 [January 1895], 11).

Lifetime Publications

A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:

Alfred Stieglitz and Louis H. Schubart, “Two Artists’ Haunts,” The Photographic Times 26 (January 1895): 10 (ill., Street in Katwyk)