From My Window at An American Place, North
probably 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): 18.7 x 23.7 cm (7 3/8 x 9 5/16 in.)
mount: 56 x 44.4 cm (22 1/16 x 17 1/2 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.1242
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Stieglitz Estate Number
6D
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
1445
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
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. 167.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 1445.
Inscriptions
by later hand, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 6—D
Wikidata ID
Q64036785
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
The Hotel and Industrial Mart at 515 Madison Avenue, seen in the right foreground of this photograph and Key Set numbers 1446 and 1447, was completed in late summer 1931. These three photographs were probably made in fall 1931 when Stieglitz returned from Lake George.