From My Window at the Shelton, 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): 11.8 x 9.1 cm (4 5/8 x 3 9/16 in.)
mount: 34.4 x 27.5 cm (13 9/16 x 10 13/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.1214
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Stieglitz Estate Number
133A
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
1383
Alfred Stieglitz
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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. 1383.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, center verso, in graphite: Ex 1932
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 133A
by later hands, on mount, upper center verso, in graphite: 12 / 12; upper right verso, in blue pencil, circled: H
Wikidata ID
Q64036721
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
This photograph and Key Set number 1382 were taken after the capstones had been placed on the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel (lower left foreground).
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. 10–16, as From my window at The Shelton, north, 1931)