Morris Loeb's poem
1886
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
platinum print mounted on cabinet card
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Credit Line
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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
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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).