The Dying Chestnut Tree
1927
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): 24.1 × 19.2 cm (9 1/2 × 7 9/16 in.)
mount: 56.5 × 46.35 cm (22 1/4 × 18 1/4 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.673
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Stieglitz Estate Number
42E
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
1191
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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. 2, cat. 1191.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: 1927 [underlined]
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, bottom left verso, in graphite: 42 E
Wikidata ID
Q64035463
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
“Even made an 8 x 10 of the old Chestnut Tree yesterday” (Stieglitz to Herbert Seligmann, 31 October 1927, YCAL).
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, 2003.1.12
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 1932, New York (nos. 91–92, as The Dying Chestnut Tree—My Teacher, 1926)