Waldo Frank
1920
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 24 x 19.2 cm (9 7/16 x 7 9/16 in.)
mount: 55.8 x 45.6 cm (21 15/16 x 17 15/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.501
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Stieglitz Estate Number
32D
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Key Set Number
642
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1993
Stabb, Martin S. "Waldo Frank: A Very Unusual Yanqui." Review: Latin American Literature and Arts 47 (Fall 1993): 87–88, repro. 87.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 642.
Inscriptions
by Doris Bry, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 32-D
Wikidata ID
Q64035068
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
“I began the day with mounting a print of you. The one sitting in the hammock.—The first I made. And it looks very well.—You are to have it.—So, there are three A+1 prints for you.—I don’t know how you will like them. How your friends will like them.—The three are different.—Each you.—Each an achievement in photography.—Very direct.—Very simple. —” (Stieglitz to Waldo Frank, 25 December 1920 [YCAL]).
The photograph of Frank in the hammock, to which Stieglitz refers above, is a variant of this photograph, and is now in the Waldo Frank Papers, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
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:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, YCAL MSS 85, box 124, folder 2473
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 (nos. 86–88, as Waldo Frank, 1920)
Lifetime Publications
A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
Gorham B. Muson, Waldo Frank: A Study (New York, 1923): frontispiece