Old and New New York

1910, printed in or before 1913

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: 33.3 x 25.7 cm (13 1/8 x 10 1/8 in.)
    sheet: 40.3 x 28.3 cm (15 7/8 x 11 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1949.3.311

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    132A

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    345

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

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

1989

  • On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: 150 Years of Photography, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May 7–July 30, 1989; The Art Institute of Chicago, September 16–November 26, 1989; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 21, 1989–February 25, 1990

2001

  • Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2001

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

2018

  • Es war einmal in Amerika: 300 Jahre US-Amerikanische Kunst [Once Upon a Time in America: Three Centuries of US-American Art], Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, 2018-2019.

Bibliography

1983

  • Greenough, Sarah, and Juan Hamilton. Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings. Washington, 1983: no. 40.

1989

  • Greenough, Sarah, Joel Snyder, David Travis, and Colin Westerbeck. On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington; Art Institute of Chicago, 1989: pl. 187.

1994

  • Bender, Thomas, and Carl E. Schorske, eds. Budapest and New York: Studies in Metropolitan Transformation, 1870–1930. New York, 1994: fig. 11.2.

  • Gerdts, William H. Impressionist New York. New York, 1994: 14, fig. 5.

2000

  • Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001: no. 25.

2002

  • Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 345.

Inscriptions

by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, lower center, in graphite: #4; on backing board, center verso, on Alfred Stieglitz Collection label, in black ink: Alfred Stieglitz / Original Gravure / Proof New York— / Old & New / 1910 / Exhibition, Photo-Secession Gallery, 1913; center right: 1944 Philadelphia Museum of Art label
by Doris Bry, lower left, in graphite: 132A

Wikidata ID

Q64034821

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

For more information about this photograph, see Key Set number 344.

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, 1949.845 (inscribed: “Old and New New York.” 1910)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 49.55.17

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 52.1853


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