Water Tower and Radio City, New York
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): 24.1 × 19.1 cm (9 1/2 × 7 1/2 in.)
mount: 52.2 × 38.9 cm (20 9/16 × 15 5/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.1245
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Stieglitz Estate Number
10E
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Key Set Number
1497
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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
1997
August Sander Archiv/SK Stiftung Kulture, Cologne, Germany, May 22–August 10, 1997
2002
Alfred Stieglitz: Known and Unknown, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, June 2–September 2, 2002; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 6, 2002–January 5, 2003
Bibliography
1983
Greenough, Sarah, and Juan Hamilton. Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings. Washington, 1983: no. 166, pl. 69.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 1497.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, center verso, in graphite, underlined: Cleveland
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, bottom left verso, in graphite: 10E
Wikidata ID
Q64036797
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
This photograph and Key Set number 1498 were made after the RKO Building at Rockefeller Center was completed in late June 1932. According to the Stieglitz–O’Keeffe correspondence, these two photographs were probably made in January 1933 (YCAL).
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1935.55 (inscribed: Water Tower and Radio City, / New York—1933 / by Alfred Stieglitz)
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. 57, as Water Tower and Radio City, New York, 1932)
1942, New York (as Radio City—Morning, New York, 1934)