From My Window at the Shelton, North
1931
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): 19 x 24.1 cm (7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.)
mount: 55.8 x 46.6 cm (21 15/16 x 18 3/8 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.1221
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Stieglitz Estate Number
2A
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
1384
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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. 2, cat. 1384.
Inscriptions
by later hands, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite, in square: 2; lower left verso: 2A
Wikidata ID
Q64036740
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
This photograph and Key Set numbers 1385 and 1386 show the construction of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel (lower left corner), which officially opened on 1 October 1931, and the GE Building (center), which was completed April 1931. Also visible is the Hotel and Industrial Mart at 515 Madison Avenue (left background of Key Set numbers 1385 and 1386) in the early stages of construction, which was completed in late summer 1931. All three photographs were made before April 1931.
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:
1932, New York (nos. 10–16, as From my window at The Shelton, north, 1931)