Five Points, New York
probably 1893, printed 1929/1932
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 9.2 x 11.9 cm (3 5/8 x 4 11/16 in.)
mount: 31.8 x 25.3 cm (12 1/2 x 9 15/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.87
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Stieglitz Estate Number
126B
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Key Set Number
81
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1958
Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, March 16–April 27, 1958
1983
Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, February 3–May 8, 1983; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June 17–August 14, 1983; The Art Institute of Chicago, October 18, 1983–January 3, 1984
Bibliography
1958
Bry, Doris. Exhibition of Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1958: pl. 2.
1983
Greenough, Sarah, and Juan Hamilton. Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings. Washington, 1983: no. 25.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 81.
Inscriptions
by later hands, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite, in square: 1; lower left verso: 10 [circled] 126-B; lower right verso: 0109
Wikidata ID
Q64034677
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
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:
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 72.1950
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1986-164-5 (inscribed: Five Points—New York—/ 1894 / Alfred Stieglitz)
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 2016.101.410
Location unknown [lantern slide] (inscribed: A New Importation, New York, 1893)
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:
1932, New York (no. 32, as Five Points, 1892, gelatin silver)
1937, New York, American Place (no. 17, as Five Points, New York, 1893)
Lifetime Publications
A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
Waldo Frank et al., America & Alfred Stieglitz (New York, 1934): pl. 25c (ill., Five Points, New York, 1892)