Looking North from Room 3003—Shelton Hotel, New York

1927

Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to image): 12.1 x 9.4 cm (4 3/4 x 3 11/16 in.)
    mount: 31.5 x 24.8 cm (12 3/8 x 9 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1949.3.1194

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    134E

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    1181

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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. 1181.

Inscriptions

by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: Looking North from Room 3003—Shelton Hotel, N.Y.—Jan / 1927
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 134E
by later hand, on mount, lower right verso, in graphite: D

Wikidata ID

Q64036676

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

This photograph and Key Set numbers 1182 and 1183 were all taken looking north from the Shelton Hotel. The Beverly Hotel, which opened in October 1927, is seen under construction in the foreground of Key Set numbers 1182 and 1183.

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