Sunlight
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): 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
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Stieglitz Estate Number
63C
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
185
Associated Artworks
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Sun Prints, 3
Alfred Stieglitz
1887
Interrupted
Alfred Stieglitz
1894
Sunlight Effect
Alfred Stieglitz
1890
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. 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)