Dying Poplar and Live Branch—Lake George
1932
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): 23.7 × 18.5 cm (9 5/16 × 7 5/16 in.)
mount: 56.3 x 45 cm (22 3/16 x 17 11/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.728
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Stieglitz Estate Number
23D
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Key Set Number
1469
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
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
Bibliography
1983
Greenough, Sarah, and Juan Hamilton. Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings. Washington, 1983: no. 121.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 1469.
Inscriptions
by Doris Bry, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 23-D
Wikidata ID
Q64035602
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
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:
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 66.1950
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Ph-169
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 52.1807
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1935.57 (inscribed: Dying Poplar & Live Branch— / Lake George—1932 / Alfred Stieglitz)
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 93.XM.25.68
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:
1934, Cleveland (no. 60, as Poplar, Lake George, 1932)