First Snow and the Little House
1923
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): 19 × 24 cm (7 1/2 × 9 7/16 in.)
mount: 55.8 × 45.8 cm (21 15/16 × 18 1/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.624
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Stieglitz Estate Number
95A
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Key Set Number
863
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1958
Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, March 16–April 27, 1958
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
1995
Alfred Stieglitz at Lake George, Museum of Modern Art, New York, September 14, 1995–January 2, 1996
2001
Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2001
Bibliography
1983
Greenough, Sarah, and Juan Hamilton. Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings. Washington, 1983: no. 110, pl. 53.
2000
Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001: no. 92.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 863.
Inscriptions
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 95A
by later hands, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite, in square: 1; lower right verso: 090
Wikidata ID
Q64035318
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
The snowstorm pictured here and in Key Set numbers 864–874 occurred on 25 November 1923.
Stieglitz wrote to Rebecca Strand on 26 November 1923, “Well, there has been a blizzard. Knee high snow. Maddeningly beautiful. Georgia had a great time in it.—And I with camera large & tiny was at it.—” (YCAL). A few days later he wrote to Sherwood Anderson, “On Sunday we had a day of days—a blizzard—snow knee high. And you should have seen how we enjoyed it. All day out of doors. I photographing like possessed. O’Keeffe wandering about in the woods—& rushing down to the Lake—All awonder & we marched ourselves to the post office & enjoyed everything—every step—Beauty everywhere—Nothing but Beauty—” (28 November 1923, YCAL and Newberry Library).
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:
1924, New York (no. 49, as First Snow and the Little House, 1923)