From the Back-Window—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: 24 x 19.2 cm (9 7/16 x 7 9/16 in.)
sheet: 24 x 19.2 cm (9 7/16 x 7 9/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.401
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Stieglitz Estate Number
11E
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
424
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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
2016
Georgia O'Keeffe, Tate Modern, London, July 6–October 30, 2016; Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna, December 7, 2016–March 26, 2017; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, April 22–July 30, 2017
Bibliography
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 424.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, center left verso, in graphite: 1916
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 11 E
Wikidata ID
Q64034913
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
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:
possibly 1921, New York (no. 50, as August Stormlight, 1915, from the series “From the Back-Window—291”)