Georgia O'Keeffe—Torso
1931
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 8.8 × 23.5 cm (3 7/16 × 9 1/4 in.)
mount: 38.7 x 50.8 cm (15 1/4 x 20 in.) -
Accession
1980.70.274
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Stieglitz Estate Number
OK 30D
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
1438
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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. 2, cat. 1438.
Inscriptions
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower right verso, in graphite: OK 30D
Wikidata ID
Q64037463
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
The dates for this photograph and Key Set numbers 1439–1444 are based on information contained in the Stieglitz–O’Keeffe correspondence. On 6 October 1931 Stieglitz wrote to Herbert Seligmann, “At dawn we start for N.Y. I have been photographing like mad for the last 10 days—nudes chiefly. Large old fashioned fever heat” (all YCAL).
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, 2003.1.20
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, PHO 2003 8 18 [palladium]
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2003-3-5
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, E.898-2003
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 2016.101.421