Songs of the Sky or Equivalent

1923/1929

Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to image): 11.8 × 9.2 cm (4 5/8 × 3 5/8 in.)
    mount: 34.5 × 27.6 cm (13 9/16 × 10 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1949.3.961

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    227E

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    985

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2002

  • Alfred Stieglitz: Known and Unknown, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, June 2–September 2, 2002; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 6, 2002–January 5, 2003

2005

  • Visual Music, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, 2005

Bibliography

2002

  • Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 985.

Inscriptions

by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: 227E
by later hand, on mount, lower right verso, in graphite: D

Wikidata ID

Q64036150

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