The Barn
1922
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
palladium print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image (visible): 23.3 × 18.6 cm (9 3/16 × 7 5/16 in.)
mat: 56.6 × 45.8 cm (22 5/16 × 18 1/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.613
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Stieglitz Estate Number
42C
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Key Set Number
781
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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. 781.
Inscriptions
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left, in graphite: Treated by Steichen - 1929; lower left verso, in graphite: 42C
Wikidata ID
Q64035296
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
“I have had my eye on the barns. Have been experimenting with them. In connection with a tree” (Stieglitz to Rebecca Strand, 27 July 1922 [YCAL]).
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:
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Ph-144 [platinum]
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1943-18-82
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1976-212-1 [gelatin silver] (inscribed: For Dorothy / Alfred S. / Dec. 21/31 / Lake George—The Barn— / 1920)
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:
1923, New York (nos. 89–91, as The Barns, 1922)