Poplars—Lake George

1933

Alfred Stieglitz

Associated Names
Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

The image shows three tall, slender trees reaching high into the sky. The perspective is from below, focusing on the trees. It is a black and white photograph with a grayscale color palette. The trees' dark leaves and branches contrast with the lighter sky tones.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to image): 24.1 × 19 cm (9 1/2 × 7 1/2 in.)
    mount: 53 × 39.3 cm (20 7/8 × 15 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1949.3.751

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    24C

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    1502

The image shows a man leaning his head on his hand, positioned with his face resting on his left hand. He has a mustache, thin-framed eyeglasses, and thick, greying hair that curls slightly at the edges. He is dressed in a formal jacket, a white shirt, and a black bow tie. The background is a soft, dark blur.

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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. 1502.

Inscriptions

by later hand, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 24C

Wikidata ID

Q64035654

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

“The Dead Poplar here still stands. Looks rather emaciated. And its neighbor—another poplar—also dead from the middle up—Something for me to play with when I get agoing” (Stieglitz to Herbert Seligmann, 26 June 1933, YCAL).

The date is based on inscriptions by Stieglitz on variant images at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (1981-86-1, 1997-146-3, and 1997-146-66).

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