From My Window at An American Place, North
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): 19.3 × 24.2 cm (7 5/8 × 9 1/2 in.)
mount: 56.4 x 46.3 cm (22 3/16 x 18 1/4 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.1209
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Stieglitz Estate Number
6E
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
1379
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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. 1379.
Inscriptions
by later hand, on mount, lower left, in graphite: 6—E
Wikidata ID
Q64036714
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
This photograph and Key Set numbers 1380 and 1381 were made in 1931, after the New York Trust Company Building (in front of the Squibb Building) was completed in late 1930.
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)