The Two Poplars, Lake George
1934
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): 23.9 × 18.7 cm (9 7/16 × 7 3/8 in.)
mat: 51.8 × 39.9 cm (20 3/8 × 15 11/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.772
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Stieglitz Estate Number
25B
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
1550
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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. 1550.
Inscriptions
by later hand, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 25B
Wikidata ID
Q64035718
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:
George Eastman Museum, Rochester, 74:0052:0066
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1949-18-79
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 52.1809
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, 2017.87a (inscribed: Zigrosser)
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1988.569
Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York
The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2002.81 (inscribed: Summer—1934 / July / This is the first print of the summer. It isn't waxed / or spotted or touched. / I'll finish it for you in N.Y. / Ccc [?] / Jan 19 / 35 / n.y. / mounted & finished today Ccc [?])
Collection of Richard and Ronay Menschel
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 2003.7
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 84.XM.217.8
The Saint Louis Art Museum, 176:1984
Lifetime Publications
A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
E. M. Benson, “Alfred Stieglitz: The Man and the Book,” American Magazine of Art 28 (January 1935): 41 (ill., The Two Poplars, Lake George, 1934)