Georgia O'Keeffe—Hand and Wheel
1933
Artist/publisher, 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): 24.2 x 19.1 cm (9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.)
mount: 51.7 x 41.8 cm (20 3/8 x 16 7/16 in.) -
Accession
1980.70.296
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Stieglitz Estate Number
OK 41B
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Key Set Number
1519
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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
2015
In Light of the Past: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Collecting Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May 3–July 26, 2015
Bibliography
1983
Greenough, Sarah, and Juan Hamilton. Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings. Washington, 1983: illus. cover.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 1519.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: A+1
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: OK 41B
Wikidata ID
Q64037487
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
In summer 1933 O’Keeffe bought a new Ford V-8 convertible coupe. The spare wheel is seen in this photograph and Key Set numbers 1515, 1516, 1517, 1518, and 1520.
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 Museum of Modern Art, New York, 106.1984
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
Private collection
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:
1934, New York (nos. 39–40, as Hand and Wheel, 1933)