Early Morn
1894, printed 1895/1896
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
platinum print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 13.4 × 18.3 cm (5 1/4 × 7 3/16 in.)
page size: 27.3 × 34.8 cm (10 3/4 × 13 11/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.170
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Stieglitz Estate Number
59E
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Key Set Number
194
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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. 194.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on interleaving tissue, upper right, in graphite: Early Morn, / 1894.
Wikidata ID
Q64037667
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
For Stieglitz's description of Gutach, where this view was made, see Key Set number 171.
Stieglitz Collections
A corresponding print was given to the following institution(s) by Alfred Stieglitz during his lifetime, or was received or acquired from the estate:
Library of Congress, Washington, PH-03 A
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
Saint Louis Art Museum, 731:1991
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:
1895, Calcutta (as Early Morn, silver medal)
1896, New York, The Society of Amateur Photographers of New York, “Third Annual Members’ Exhibition” (as Early Morn)
possibly 1897, New York, Knickerbocker (as The Reapers, lantern slide)
1897, London, R.P.S. (no. 440, as Early Morn, lantern slide)
1898, London, Salon (no. 71, as Harvesting)
1899, New York (no. 56, as Early Morn, 1894–1899, platinum direct)
1899, Philadelphia (no. 277, as Early Morn)
1900, Newark (no. 163, as Early Morn, 1894)
1903, Brussels (no. 435, as Early Morn)
1903, Denver (no. 145, as Early Morn)
1904, The Hague (no. 122, as Early Morn)
1921, New York (no. 7, as Harvesting, 1894)
1934, New York (no. 20, as Harvesting, Black Forest, 1894)
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., ‘Harvesting’ [Gutach])
Marmaduke Humphrey, “Triumphs in Amateur Photography,” Godey’s Magazine 135 (December 1897): 585 (ill., Early Morn)
The Photographic Times 30 (August 1898): opp. 337 (ill., Early Morn, photogravure)
Die Kunst in der Photographie 2 (1898): unpaginated (ill., Kornernte)
American Pictorial Photography, Series I [published by Camera Notes] (New York, 1899): pl. 9 (ill., Early Morn, photogravure)