Street Sweeper and Little Tree

1900/1901, printed 1929/1932

Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

Printed with brownish-gray tones, a single tall tree with a spindly trunk and sparse canopy grows inside a round cage set into a sidewalk in this tall, narrow photograph. The tree is just left of center, and two more, one of them also in a cage, are farther along the sidewalk to the left. Between the first two trees, a person wearing a light coat and a dark cap cleans the street along the gutter. Two horse-drawn carriages with drivers sitting high on the cabs face away from us along the left edge of the photograph. The sidewalk and street to our right gleams with rain, more carriages, and one pedestrian holding an umbrella are dark silhouettes in the hazy distance. Skyscrapers are outlined against a misty sky in the top half of this picture.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to image): 10.1 x 6.3 cm (4 x 2 1/2 in.)
    mount: 31.6 x 24.8 cm (12 7/16 x 9 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1949.3.261

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    127B

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    272

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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. 272.

Inscriptions

by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 127B

Wikidata ID

Q64034770

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

The titles for this photograph and Key Set number 271 are taken from the checklist for Stieglitz’s 1932 exhibition.

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, 26.1950 (inscribed: Ex 1932)

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