Helen Freeman
1921
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
palladium print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 24.5 × 19.5 cm (9 5/8 × 7 11/16 in.)
sheet: 25.4 × 20.2 cm (10 × 7 15/16 in.)
mount: 56.4 × 45.6 cm (22 3/16 × 17 15/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.503
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Stieglitz Estate Number
40E
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Key Set Number
711
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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. 711.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: Stieglitz Exhibition 1923 / Anderson Galleries / Helen Freeman
by later hand, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 40 E
Wikidata ID
Q64035070
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
A dancer, actress, and writer, Helen Freeman probably met Stieglitz and O’Keeffe in the early 1920s through her friendship with Mitchell Kennerley, owner of the Anderson Galleries.
This photograph and Key Set numbers 712-716 were made on at least two separate occasions between late November 1921 and Fall 1922.
“My Dear Miss. Freeman: The exposures have been developed. And there are proofs.—I have been thinking them over.—Some I feel are acceptable.—At least as a beginning. Early next week, should you find time, I’ll make another series.—And when you come, you’ll see the proofs” (Stieglitz to Helen Freeman, 1 December 1921 [Sotheby’s, auction catalogue, 17 April 1991, lot 123A]).
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:
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 52.1800
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
New York Public Library, Mitchell Kennerley Papers
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:
1923, New York (nos. 5–11, as Helen Freeman, 1922)