Kitty at 291
1915
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
platinum print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 23.7 x 18.7 cm (9 5/16 x 7 3/8 in.)
sheet: 25.3 x 19.9 cm (9 15/16 x 7 13/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.358
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Stieglitz Estate Number
56D
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Key Set Number
399
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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. 399.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: Exhibition 1921 / Kitty at 291 / 1915 Spring
by later hand, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 56 D
Wikidata ID
Q64034870
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
Behind Kitty is Picasso’s charcoal drawing Head of a Woman, 1909 (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), exhibited at 291 from 12 to 26 January 1915.
Lifetime Exhibitions
A print from the same negative—perhaps a photograph from the Gallery’s collection—appeared in the following exhibition(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
1921, New York (no. 59, as Kitty—at “291”, 1915)