Swami Nikhilananda
1937
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): 10.3 × 8.9 cm (4 1/16 × 3 1/2 in.)
mount: 35.9 × 28.3 cm (14 1/8 × 11 1/8 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.763
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Stieglitz Estate Number
181D
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
1630
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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. 1630.
Inscriptions
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, top left verso, in graphite: 181 D
Wikidata ID
Q64035694
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
Swami Nikhilananda, the head of the Hindu Center in New York and a friend of Stieglitz’s niece Elizabeth Davidson, was a guest at Lake George for the entire summer of 1937. On 2 September 1937 Stieglitz wrote to William Einstein that he had some “snaps of the swami” (YCAL). The Swami is not known to have been at Lake George any other time.