Georgia O'Keeffe—Hand and Breasts
1919
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: 18.2 x 23.2 cm (7 3/16 x 9 1/8 in.)
sheet: 20.1 x 25.2 cm (7 15/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
mat: 56 x 45.5 cm (22 1/16 x 17 15/16 in.) -
Accession
1980.70.113
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Stieglitz Estate Number
OK 33D
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
576
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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
2001
Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2001
Bibliography
1965
Bry, Doris. Alfred Stieglitz: Photographer. Exh. cat. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1965: pl. 14.
1978
Georgia O'Keeffe: A Portrait by Alfred Stieglitz. Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1978: pl. 29.
1983
Greenough, Sarah, and Juan Hamilton. Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings. Washington, 1983: no. 79, pl. 39.
1999
Haskell, Barbara. The American Century: Art and Culture, 1900–1950. Exh. cat. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1999: fig. 391.
2000
Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001: no. 118.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 576.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount: upper left verso, in graphite: Georgia O'Keeffe 1919 [underlined] / Exhibition 1932; upper center verso, in graphite: No. 1
by Georgia O'Keeffe, lower left verso, in graphite: 1—33D No. 1; on mount: center, in graphite: 1—33D—No. 1; lower left, in graphite: Treated by Steichen; lower left verso, in graphite: OK 33D
by later hands, on mount, upper center verso, in graphite: 01; upper right verso, in red pencil: Two [underlined]
Wikidata ID
Q64037117
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
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, 28.130.1
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 24.1727 (inscribed: The White Hand / Photograph by / Alfred Stieglitz / 1919 / Negative & Print made in / 1919 / by Alfred Stieglitz / Print 3 from this negative)
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Ph-137
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, P2015.1
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 91.XM.63.7
National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003.115.19
Location unknown
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:
possibly 1921, New York (nos. 138–140, as Hands and Breasts, 1918–1920)
1930, Cambridge (no. 108, as The White Hand, 1919)
1932, New York (nos. 76–78, as Georgia O’Keeffe, 1918–1923)