Sunlight

1894, printed 1895/1896

Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    platinum print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to image): 12.7 × 16.2 cm (5 × 6 3/8 in.)
    page size: 34.8 × 27 cm (13 11/16 × 10 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1949.3.175

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    63C

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    185

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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. 185.

Inscriptions

by Alfred Stieglitz, on interleaving tissue, upper right, in graphite: "Sunlight."

Wikidata ID

Q64037756

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

For Stieglitz's description of Gutach, where this view was made, see Key Set number 171.

Other Collections

A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):

National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2006.3.1.13

Location unknown [lantern slide]

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:

1899, New York (no. 60, as A Black Forest Well, 1894)
1934, New York (no. 16, as At the Pump, Black Forest, 1894)


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