Rebecca Salsbury Strand

1922

Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to image): 9.2 × 11.7 cm (3 5/8 × 4 5/8 in.)
    mount: 33.9 × 27.5 cm (13 3/8 × 10 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1949.3.550

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    212B

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    750

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

Bibliography

2002

  • Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 750.

Inscriptions

by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower right verso, in graphite: 212 B

Wikidata ID

Q64035151

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

“Have quite an extraordinary series of portraits of Beck. Eye-openers. Am surprised myself for while she was here I imagined I had totally failed. The joke was on me—” (Stieglitz to Herbert Seligmann, 29 October 1922 [YCAL]).

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