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: 23.2 x 18.4 cm (9 1/8 x 7 1/4 in.)
sheet: 25.2 x 20.2 cm (9 15/16 x 7 15/16 in.)
mat: 56.8 x 46.4 cm (22 3/8 x 18 1/4 in.) -
Accession
1980.70.39
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Stieglitz Estate Number
OK 35C
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
511
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1980.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1983
Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, February 3–May 8, 1983; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June 17–August 14, 1983; The Art Institute of Chicago, October 18, 1983–January 3, 1984
1989
On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: 150 Years of Photography, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May 7–July 30, 1989; The Art Institute of Chicago, September 16–November 26, 1989; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 21, 1989–February 25, 1990
2001
Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2001
Bibliography
1983
Greenough, Sarah, and Juan Hamilton. Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings. Washington, 1983: no. 78, pl. 40.
1989
Greenough, Sarah, Joel Snyder, David Travis, and Colin Westerbeck. On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington; Art Institute of Chicago, 1989: pl. 209.
2000
Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001: no. 91.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 511.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, center left verso, in graphite: 1918
by Georgia O'Keeffe, lower left verso, in graphite: K OK 35C; on mount, center: K OK 35C; lower left: Treated by Steichen 6/49; lower left verso, crossed out: 35C / OK 35D
by later hands, on mount, center left verso, in graphite: white; lower center verso: [H?]
Wikidata ID
Q64036946
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 93.XM.25.52