Georgia O'Keeffe—Hand and Wheel

1933

Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to image): 24.3 × 19.6 cm (9 9/16 × 7 11/16 in.)
    mount: 53 × 39.7 cm (20 7/8 × 15 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1980.70.299

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    OK 7C

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    1515

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1980.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1958

  • Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, March 16–April 27, 1958

Bibliography

1946

  • Engelhard, Georgia. "The Face of Alfred Stieglitz." Popular Photography 19 (September 1946): 53.

1947

  • Engelhard, Georgia. "Alfred Stieglitz: 'Father of Modern Photography.'" The Camera 69 (June 1947): 53.

1977

  • Ffrench-Frazier, Nina. "Photography: The Stieglitz/Steichen Succession." ARTnews 76 (January 1977): 108.

1978

  • Georgia O'Keeffe: A Portrait by Alfred Stieglitz. Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1978: pl. 47.

1993

  • Smith, Terry. Making the Modern: Industry, Art, and Design in America. Chicago, 1993: cover.

2002

  • Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 1515.

Inscriptions

by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, lower center verso, in graphite: 28
by later hand, on mount, lower left, in graphite, erased: Alfred Stieglitz / A Portrait / 1933; lower right, in graphite, erased: D-7C

Wikidata ID

Q64037490

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 1516, 1517, 1518, 1519, 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:

George Eastman Museum, Rochester, 74:0052:0065

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1997.61.39

Other Collections

A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):

Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York

The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1935.99 (inscribed: Georgia O’Keeffe’s Hand / & Wheel—1933 / Alfred Stieglitz)

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 91.XM.63.11 (oriented 180°)

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)
1934, Cleveland (no. 54, as Hand and Wheel, 1933)

Lifetime Publications

A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:

Waldo Frank et al., America & Alfred Stieglitz (New York, 1934): pl. 30b (ill., O’Keeffe Hand and Ford Wheel, 1933)


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