Hedge and Grasses—Lake George
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): 18.9 × 24 cm (7 7/16 × 9 7/16 in.)
mount: 53 × 41.7 cm (20 7/8 × 16 7/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.740
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Stieglitz Estate Number
44E
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Key Set Number
1508
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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
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. 123.
2000
Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001: no. 184.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 1508.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, center verso, in graphite: A + 1 / Good
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left, in graphite: 44-E
by later hand, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite, in square: 1
Wikidata ID
Q64035626
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 Art Institute of Chicago, 1949.780
George Eastman Museum, Rochester, 74:0052:0095
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 50.843
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1949-18-84 (inscribed: G1)
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1935.97 (inscribed: Vines to Grasses—/ Lake George—1934 / Alfred Stieglitz)
Collection of Karen and Kevin Kennedy
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 2018.84.20
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. 52, as Grass and Leaves, 1933)
1934, Cleveland (no. 53, as Grasses and Vine, 1933)
Lifetime Publications
A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
Waldo Frank et al., America & Alfred Stieglitz (New York, 1934): pl. 29c (ill., Hedge and Grasses—Lake George, 1933)