Morris Loeb's poem

1886

Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    platinum print mounted on cabinet card

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 14 x 5 cm (5 1/2 x 1 15/16 in.)
    support: 22 x 13.6 cm (8 11/16 x 5 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1949.3.11

  • Key Set Number

    3

Associated Artworks

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Freienwalde a. O.

Alfred Stieglitz

1886

Freienwalde a. O.

Alfred Stieglitz

1886

Freienwalde a. O.

Alfred Stieglitz

1886

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. 3.

Wikidata ID

Q64034640

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

This photograph is bound in a small (5 3/8 × 8 3/4 inches) leather album stamped in gold: July 4th 1886 / Freienwalde a.O. (Freienwalde-an-der-Oder, now known as Bad Freienwalde, was a resort town northeast of Berlin, near the Oder River.) The following Key Set numbers are also included in the album: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13. This photograph and Key Set number 13 are mounted on cabinet cards and slipped into a small pocket on the inside back cover of the volume.

Each stanza in this poem by Stieglitz’s friend Morris Loeb refers to one of the following ten photographs. The poem is a spoof on Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Three Little Maids from School Are We” from their recently released, popular musical The Mikado (1885).


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