Georgia O'Keeffe
probably 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: 18.4 x 23.1 cm (7 1/4 x 9 1/8 in.)
sheet: 20.2 x 25.1 cm (7 15/16 x 9 7/8 in.)
mat: 51.5 x 41.1 cm (20 1/4 x 16 3/16 in.) -
Accession
1980.70.96
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Stieglitz Estate Number
OK 40A
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
517
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1980.
Associated Names
Bibliography
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 517.
Inscriptions
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left, in graphite: Treated by Steichen 1949
by later hands, center verso, in graphite: rough; lower center verso: K / OK / 40A; on mount, lower left verso: OK 40A
Wikidata ID
Q64037078
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
O’Keeffe suggested that this photograph and Key Set numbers 518–522 were made soon after she arrived in New York in 1918: “My hands had always been admired since I was a little girl—but I never thought much about it. He [Stieglitz] wanted head and hands and arms on a pillow—in many different positions. I was asked to move my hands in many different ways—also my head—and I had to turn this way and that” (Georgia O’Keeffe in Georgia O’Keeffe: A Portrait by Alfred Stieglitz [1978]).
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, 1997.61.9