Grasses
1933
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): 19.2 × 24.2 cm (7 9/16 × 9 1/2 in.)
mount: 56.4 × 45 cm (22 3/16 × 17 11/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.738
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Stieglitz Estate Number
44D
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Key Set Number
1504
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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. 1504.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, upper center verso, in graphite: AA–A+A4; center verso, in graphite: White Room
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, bottom left verso, in graphite: 44D
Wikidata ID
Q64035623
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, 330.1942
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
Collection of Richard and Ronay Menschel
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 93.XM.25.63
The Nelson-Atkins Art Museum, Kansas City, 2005.27.4387
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1977-268-1
Princeton University Art Museum, 73.62, 74.36
Stephen White Collection, II
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 2018.84.19
Private collection (inscribed: For Georgia O’Keeffe / Alfred Stieglitz / 1934—December)
Location unknown
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, New York (no. 53, as Grasses, 1933)
1942, New York (as Grasses—Morning, Lake George, 1932)