Georgia O'Keeffe—Hands 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
sheet (trimmed to image): 18.3 × 22 cm (7 3/16 × 8 11/16 in.)
mat: 55.9 × 46.3 cm (22 × 18 1/4 in.) -
Accession
1980.70.114
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Stieglitz Estate Number
OK 39C
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
579
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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. 579.
Inscriptions
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left, in graphite: Treated by Steichen 6/49; lower left verso: OK 39C
by later hands, lower left verso, in graphite: K—OK 39C; on mount, center: K OK 39C
Wikidata ID
Q64037119
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
The dates for this photograph and Key Set numbers 578, 580, and 581 are based on similarities to Key Set number 576.
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)