The Steerage
1907, printed 1915
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

Artwork overview
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Medium
photogravure on thin beige slightly textured laid Japanese paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 33.3 x 26.6 cm (13 1/8 x 10 1/2 in.)
sheet: 40.5 x 28.2 cm (15 15/16 x 11 1/8 in.)
mount: 50.7 x 38.7 cm (19 15/16 x 15 1/4 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.293
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Stieglitz Estate Number
125D
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
313

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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1992
Stieglitz in the Darkroom, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, October 4, 1992–February 14, 1993
Bibliography
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 313.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, lower left, in graphite: The Steerage 1907 / Alfred Stieglitz; on mount: lower left verso, on An American Place label, in black ink: The Steerage—1907 (original gravure) / by Alfred Stieglitz
by later hands, on mount, lower right, in graphite: Alfred Stieglitz / The Steerage / 1907 / (Large photogravure); lower center, in graphite: Bry # 125 D; lower right, in graphite: 14 x 10 7/8 / 3 / 3 1/2 6 / 20 1/2 x 16 7/8 / 067; lower left verso, in graphite: 125 D
Wikidata ID
Q64034803
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
This gravure, published as an insert in the deluxe edition of the September–October 1915 issue of 291, was also available in a regular edition, printed on a moderately thick wove Japan paper.
For more information about this photograph, see Key Set number 310.
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, 1949.847 (inscribed: Stieglitz—1907, “The Steerage”)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 49.55.13
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Ph-178
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1949-18-50