From My Window at the Shelton, North
1930
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): 11.9 x 9.3 cm (4 11/16 x 3 11/16 in.)
mount: 34.7 x 27.5 cm (13 11/16 x 10 13/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.1220
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Stieglitz Estate Number
132C
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Key Set Number
1350
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2004
Alfred Stieglitz and His Circle: 1905–1930, Musée d'Orsay, Paris; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2004–2005
Bibliography
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 1350.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, center left verso, in graphite: Ex 1932
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 132C
by later hands, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: 7; upper right verso, in blue pencil, circled: X
Wikidata ID
Q64036738
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
On 23 October 1930, The New York Times, 50, reported that the American flag (visible in both Key Set numbers 1351 and 1352), “was unfurled yesterday at the highest point of the new Waldorf-Astoria Hotel when the topmost column of the structure was put into place . . . the entire steel work, including erection and riveting will not be completed until early November.” The last capstone was put into place on 4 February 1931 (The New York Times [5 February 1931], 39). Therefore Stieglitz probably made this photograph and Key Set numbers 1351, 1352, 1353, and 1354 in November or December 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. 10–16, as From my window at The Shelton, north, 1931)