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
image: 18.4 x 23 cm (7 1/4 x 9 1/16 in.)
sheet: 20.2 x 25.3 cm (7 15/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
mat: 50.5 x 41.3 cm (19 7/8 x 16 1/4 in.) -
Accession
1980.70.115
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Stieglitz Estate Number
OK 39D
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
578
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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. 578.
Inscriptions
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left, in graphite: Treated by Steichen 1949; lower left verso: OK 39D
by later hand, center verso, in graphite: K / OK 39D
Wikidata ID
Q64037120
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
The dates for this photograph and Key Set numbers 579, 580, and 581 are based on similarities to Key Set number 576.
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, 1997.61.62
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)