From "Room 303" (Intimate Gallery)—489 Park Avenue—New York
1927
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): 12 x 6.3 cm (4 3/4 x 2 1/2 in.)
mount: 31.9 x 25.2 cm (12 9/16 x 9 15/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.1190
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Stieglitz Estate Number
136E
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
1184
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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. 2, cat. 1184.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: From "Room 303" (Intimate Gallery)—489 Park Ave, N.Y.— / April—1927
by later hands, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 136E; lower right verso: D
Wikidata ID
Q64036671
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
The Sherry-Netherland Hotel on the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue and 59th Street was completed in mid-1927. In this photograph and Key Set numbers 1185, 1186, and 1187 Stieglitz photographed it looking west from the Intimate Gallery.
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:
possibly 1932, New York (no. 29, as From my window at Intimate Gallery—west, 1928)