From My Window at An American Place, North
1930/1931
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): 24.1 x 18.9 cm (9 1/2 x 7 7/16 in.)
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Accession
1949.3.1206
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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)