New York from 405 E 54th Street
1937
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): 8.8 x 11.4 cm (3 7/16 x 4 1/2 in.)
mount: 33.1 x 27.4 cm (13 1/16 x 10 13/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.1264
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Stieglitz Estate Number
131C
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
1621
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. 1621.
Inscriptions
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 131C
Wikidata ID
Q64036837
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
This photograph and Key Set numbers 1622 and 1623 are dated by the construction of a hospital on Welfare Island (now Roosevelt Island). A photograph by P. L. Sperr, dated 1 July 1937 (see Photographic Views of New York, 1870s–1970s, no. 1369.C3), shows the construction of the hospital at a stage similar to that of these three photographs. As Stieglitz left for Lake George in late June, the photographs must have been made in May or June 1937. The titles are based on those of similar works included in Stieglitz’s 1934 exhibition at An American Place.