Portrait of Georgia, No. 1
1923
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): 11.6 x 9.2 cm (4 9/16 x 3 5/8 in.)
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Accession
1980.70.191
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Stieglitz Estate Number
OK 509B
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Key Set Number
920
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1980.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
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
1991
Peters, Sarah Whitaker. Becoming O'Keeffe: The Early Years. New York, 1991: pl. 126.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 920.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: Portrait of Georgia / no. 1. 1923
by later hand, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: 162E = OK 509B
Wikidata ID
Q64037297
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
The Stieglitz Estate list identifies this photograph and Key Set numbers 921 and 922 as a series.
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:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, YCAL MSS 85, box 122, folder 2454
George Eastman Museum, Rochester, 74:0052:0047
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 24.1723 (inscribed: Portrait—Georgia O’Keeffe / Photograph by / Alfred Stieglitz / New York / 1923 / Negative & print made by / Alfred Stieglitz / 1923 / Print 2 from this negative)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 111.1984
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Ph-158
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 52.1818 (inscribed: 1922)
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, P2004.4
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 93.XM.25.77
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, 2002.02
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1997-38-6
Location unknown
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:
probably 1924, New York (no. 20, as Portrait—G.O.)
1930, Cambridge (no. 107, as Portrait of Georgia O’Keefe [sic], 1923)
Lifetime Publications
A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
“We Nominate for the Hall of Fame: Georgia O’Keeffe,” Vanity Fair 22:5 (July 1924), 49 (ill., untitled)