Georgia O'Keeffe—Torso
1918
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
palladium print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 22.9 × 18.8 cm (9 × 7 3/8 in.)
sheet: 25.3 x 20 cm (9 15/16 x 7 7/8 in.)
mat: 59.06 × 48.9 cm (23 1/4 × 19 1/4 in.) -
Accession
1980.70.38
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Stieglitz Estate Number
OK 34E
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
508
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1980.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1992
Two Lives: O’Keeffe by Stieglitz 1917–1923, J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, CA, June 30–September 13, 1992
2012
The Serial Portrait: Photography and Identity in the Last One Hundred Years: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, September 30–December 31, 2012
Bibliography
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 508.
Inscriptions
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left, in graphite: Treated by Steichen 1949; lower left verso: OK 34E
by later hands, center verso, in graphite: K / OK / 34E; lower right verso: W [crossed out] Cream / med
Wikidata ID
Q64036944
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
The dates for this photograph and Key Set numbers 509 and 510 are based on similarities to Key Set number 511.
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 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1997.61.21
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 24.1731 (inscribed: Torso—1919 / Photograph by / Alfred Stieglitz / Negative & Print made by / Alfred Stieglitz / Print no. 2 made from / this negative)
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
Private collection [two gelatin silver]
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:
1930, Cambridge (no. 111, as Torso, 1919)