Music—A Sequence of Ten Cloud Photographs, No. I or Clouds in 10 Movements, No. I
1922
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
image: 19.4 x 24 cm (7 5/8 x 9 7/16 in.)
sheet: 25.4 x 20.2 cm (10 x 7 15/16 in.)
mount: 56.2 x 44.9 cm (22 1/8 x 17 11/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.828
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Stieglitz Estate Number
27B
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Key Set Number
792
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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
1989
On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: 150 Years of Photography, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May 7–July 30, 1989; The Art Institute of Chicago, September 16–November 26, 1989; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 21, 1989–February 25, 1990
2001
Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2001
2010
Alfred Stieglitz: The Lake George Years, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2010
Bibliography
1983
Greenough, Sarah, and Juan Hamilton. Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings. Washington, 1983: no. 129, pl. 56.
1989
Greenough, Sarah, Joel Snyder, David Travis, and Colin Westerbeck. On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington; Art Institute of Chicago, 1989: pl. 210.
2000
Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001: no. 93.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 792.
2010
Annear, Judy, ed. Alfred Stieglitz: The Lake George Years. Exh. cat. Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2010.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: Clouds in 10 Movements / No. 1; center left verso: Exhibition 1923 / I
by later hand, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 27B
Wikidata ID
Q64035849
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
The titles of this photograph and the following Key Set numbers are based on those used for Stieglitz’s 1923 exhibition at the Anderson Galleries: 793, 794, 795, 796, 797, 798, 799, 800, 801, and 802.
They are numbered according to Stieglitz’s inscriptions on the Gallery’s prints and those included as part of the 1924 gift to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. This series was probably made between late August and October 1922.
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:
George Eastman Museum, Rochester, 74:0052:0067 [palladium]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 28.127.6 [platinum]
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 24.1732 (inscribed: Music—A Series of Ten Pictures / no. 1 of this series. / Photograph by / Alfred Stieglitz / 1922 / Negative & Print made by / Alfred Stieglitz in / Lake George, N.Y. / 1922 / Print no. 4 made from this / negative)
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1949-18-80
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, P1998.70 [palladium]
The Bluff Collection [platinum]
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 87.XM.94.4
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1872.2001
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:
1923, New York (nos. 78–87, as Music—A Sequence of Ten Cloud Photographs, 1922)