From My Window at the Shelton, West
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): 24.3 x 19.2 cm (9 9/16 x 7 9/16 in.)
mount: 56 x 45.7 cm (22 1/16 x 18 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.1227
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Stieglitz Estate Number
2B
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Key Set Number
1389
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1994
Sayre, Henry M. A World of Art. New Jersey, 1994: fig. 138.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 1389.
Inscriptions
by later hand, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 2—B
Wikidata ID
Q64036755
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
This photograph and Key Set numbers 1390, 1391, and 1392 depict the Newsweek building at 444 Madison Avenue, which was completed in mid-1931. Based on the stage of its construction and the fact that the windows of the new Waldorf-Astoria hotel (right foreground) are still covered with tape, these photographs were made in May or June 1931. The Waldorf-Astoria officially opened on 1 October 1931. The window-washing platform on the hotel and the shifting pattern of shadows indicate that three of these photographs were made on one day in rapid succession: this photograph was first, Key Set number 1390 second, and Key Set number 1391 third. Key Set number 1392 was made some time later.
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:
The Art Institute of Chicago, 1949.782
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 49.55.45