Georgia O'Keeffe
1933
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): 24 x 19.1 cm (9 7/16 x 7 1/2 in.)
mount: 52.9 x 41.8 cm (20 13/16 x 16 7/16 in.) -
Accession
1980.70.317
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Stieglitz Estate Number
OK 6E
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Key Set Number
1516
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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
Bibliography
1983
Greenough, Sarah, and Juan Hamilton. Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings. Washington, 1983: no. 97.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 1516.
Inscriptions
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: OK 6E
Wikidata ID
Q64037510
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, 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:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1997.61.40
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1935.52 (inscribed: Georgia O’Keeffe / by Alfred Stieglitz / 1933)
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, Cleveland (no. 51, as Georgia O’Keeffe, 1933)