From My Window at An American Place, North

1930/1931

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): 24.1 x 18.9 cm (9 1/2 x 7 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1949.3.1206

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    8C

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    1358

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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

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

Bibliography

1983

  • Greenough, Sarah, and Juan Hamilton. Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings. Washington, 1983: no. 158.

2002

  • Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 1358.

Inscriptions

by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 8C
by later hands, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite, circled: L; upper center verso: 19

Wikidata ID

Q64036702

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

For more information about this photograph, see Key Set number 1357.

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:

1932, New York (nos. 1–9, as From my window at An American Place, north, 1931)


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