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): 24.4 x 19.1 cm (9 5/8 x 7 1/2 in.)
mount: 56.3 x 46.3 cm (22 3/16 x 18 1/4 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.1223
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Stieglitz Estate Number
6C
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Key Set Number
1386
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2010
Alfred Stieglitz's New York, South Street Seaport Museum, New York, 2010–2011
Bibliography
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 1386.
2010
Alfred Stieglitz New York. Exh. cat. South Street Seaport Museum, New York, 2010: no. 32.
Inscriptions
by later hand, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 6—C
Wikidata ID
Q64036743
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
For more information about this photograph, see Key Set number 1384.
Stieglitz Collections
A corresponding print was given to the following institution(s) by Alfred Stieglitz during his lifetime, or was received or acquired from the estate:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, YCAL MSS 85, box 125, folder 2483
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1949-18-72
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003.115.4
Location unknown
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)
Lifetime Publications
A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
Wings 8:12 (December 1934): cover (ill., From the Shelton, New York, 1930)
Waldo Frank et al., America & Alfred Stieglitz (New York, 1934): pl. 31a (ill., From the Shelton—New York, 1930)