Music—A Sequence of Ten Cloud Photographs, No. II
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 (visible): 23.2 × 18.7 cm (9 1/8 × 7 3/8 in.)
mount: 56.1 × 45.2 cm (22 1/16 × 17 13/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.829
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Stieglitz Estate Number
27C
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Key Set Number
793
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1992
Stieglitz in the Darkroom, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, October 4, 1992–February 14, 1993
Bibliography
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 793.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: No. 2; center left verso: Exhibition 1923 / II
by later hand, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 27C
Wikidata ID
Q64035851
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: 792, 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:
The Art Institute of Chicago, 1949.775 (inscribed: Clouds—L.G. —)
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1984-152-1
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)