Black Forest House
1894, printed 1929/1934
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print mounted on paperboard
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 15.8 x 22 cm (6 1/4 x 8 11/16 in.)
mount: 27.8 x 34.7 cm (10 15/16 x 13 11/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.181
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Stieglitz Estate Number
78D
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
177
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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. 177.
Inscriptions
by later hand, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: D2
Wikidata ID
Q64034729
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
The title is taken from the checklist for Stieglitz’s 1934 exhibition.
For Stieglitz's description of Gutach, where this view was made, see Key Set number 171.
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:
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 52.1790
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 2016.101.419