Marie Rapp
1914
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
platinum print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 24.3 x 18.8 cm (9 9/16 x 7 3/8 in.)
sheet: 25.3 x 20.2 cm (9 15/16 x 7 15/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.349
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Stieglitz Estate Number
91B
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
392
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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. 392.
Inscriptions
by later hand, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 91 B
Wikidata ID
Q64034861
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
The inscriptions on two variants of this portrait form the basis for the date. One reads, “To Marie Rapp / 1914 / 291 / Alfred Stieglitz” (location unknown, see Christie’s, New York, auction catalogue, 31 October 1989, lot 90), and the other “To Marie Rapp / June—1914 / ‘291’” (location unknown, see Sotheby’s, New York, auction catalogue, 15–16 October 1992, lot 204).
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
Newark Museum, New Jersey
Scheinbaum & Russek Ltd, Santa Fe, NM [gelatin silver]