Gossip, Venice
1894, printed 1895/1896
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
platinum print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 13.7 × 9 cm (5 3/8 × 3 9/16 in.)
page size: 33.8 × 27 cm (13 5/16 × 10 5/8 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.119
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Stieglitz Estate Number
65D
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
143
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Bibliography
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 143.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on interleaving tissue, lower right, in graphite: Gossip / 1894
Wikidata ID
Q64037644
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, 14,268/7590,12 [gum]
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1995-2-20 [lantern slide] (inscribed: 28. Gossip. Venice.)
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:
1897, London, R.P.S. (no. 440, as Gossip—Venice)
1898, London, Salon (no. 112, as Gossip—Venice)
1899, New York (nos. 41–42, as Gossip, Venice, 1894–1899, carbon enlargement, and 1894-1898, gum bichromate)
1899, Hamburg (no. 737, as Gossip, Venice, 1894)
1900, New York (no. 99, as Gossip—Venice)
1902, New York (no. 138, as Gossip—Venice, 1894)
1902, London (no. 67, as Gossip—Venice)
1904, The Hague (no. 119, as Gossip—Venice)
Lifetime Publications
A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
M. [F. Matthies-Masuren], “Alfred Stieglitz—New York,” Photographisches Centralblatt 4 (December 1898): 432 (ill., untitled)
“Photographs from the Camera Club Exhibition,” New-York Tribune (14 May 1899): illustrated supplement, 10 (ill., Gossip—Venice)
Photograms of the Year (London, 1900): 16 (ill., Gossip. Venice)
Camera Notes 6:1 (July 1902): opp. 58 (ill., Gossip—Venice)
Photographische Rundschau und Photographisches Centralblatt 18:9 (1904): 123 (ill., Venedig)
Die Photographische Kunst im Jahre 1904: Ein Jahrbuch für Künstlerische Photographie: 46 (ill., Venedig)