Music—A Sequence of Ten Cloud Photographs, No. VI

1922

Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 24 x 18.8 cm (9 7/16 x 7 3/8 in.)
    sheet: 25.3 x 20.2 cm (9 15/16 x 7 15/16 in.)
    mat: 56.3 x 45 cm (22 3/16 x 17 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1949.3.834

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    28B

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  • Key Set Number

    798

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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

2010

  • Alfred Stieglitz: The Lake George Years, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2010

2012

  • Inventing Abstraction, 1910–1925: How a Radical Idea Changed Modern Art, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2012–2013

Bibliography

1983

  • Greenough, Sarah, and Juan Hamilton. Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings. Washington, 1983: no. 132.

2002

  • Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 798.

2010

  • Annear, Judy, ed. Alfred Stieglitz: The Lake George Years. Exh. cat. Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2010.

Inscriptions

by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: Exhibition 1923 / VI
by later hand, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 28B

Wikidata ID

Q64035858

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

The titles of this photograph and the following Key Set numbers are based on those used for Stieglitz’s 1923 exhibition at the Anderson Galleries: 792, 793, 794, 795, 796, 797, 799, 800, 801, and 802.

They are numbered according to Stieglitz’s inscriptions on the Gallery’s prints and those included as part of the 1924 gift to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. This series was probably made between late August and October 1922.

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:

Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1949-18-81 (inscribed: A)

Other Collections

A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):

Charles and Alexandra van Horne (inscribed: Clouds—Music—No. 7 / Alfred Stieglitz / 1922)

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:

1923, New York (nos. 78–87, as Music—A Sequence of Ten Cloud Photographs, 1922)


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