The Street, Fifth Avenue

1900/1901, printed 1903/1904

Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    photogravure on beige thin slightly textured laid Japanese paper

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 30.6 x 23.3 cm (12 1/16 x 9 3/16 in.)
    sheet: 46.5 x 31.2 cm (18 5/16 x 12 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1949.3.267

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    122B

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    267

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2002

  • Alfred Stieglitz: Known and Unknown, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, June 2–September 2, 2002; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 6, 2002–January 5, 2003

Bibliography

2002

  • Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 267.

Inscriptions

by Alfred Stiegltiz, lower left, in graphite: AS; on mount, lower right, in graphite: #2 Stieglitz # 4 [crossed out] Sg 9 3/4 + 12 3/4; on backing board, center verso, in black ink on Collection of Alfred Stieglitz label: Alfred Stieglitz / Original Gravure / Proof / Exhibition Alfred Stieglitz Photo / Secession Gallery, 1913.; typed on label: 9. THE STREET, FIFTH AVENUE—1896; upper right verso: 1944 Philadelphia Museum of Art label
by Georgia O'Keeffe, lower left verso, in graphite: 122B

Wikidata ID

Q64034777

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

For more information about this photograh, see Key Set number 266.

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 Art Institute of Chicago, 1949.839

Fisk University, Nashville, and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, ASC.2012.83

George Eastman Museum, Rochester, 74:0052:0071

Library of Congress, Washington, PH-07 B

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 49.55.8 (inscribed: The Street—Winter / Alfred Stieglitz / 1897)

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 50.828

National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Ph-152

Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1949-18-49

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 52.1794

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