Dorothy True, 1919

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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, 1949.720

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, YCAL MSS 85, box 124, folder 2481

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 24.1720 (inscribed: Portrait—Dorothy T. / Photograph by / Alfred Stieglitz / New York / negative & print / made in New York. / by Alfred Stieglitz / 1919 / Print 3 from this negative)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 28.126

Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1949-18-65

Other Collections

A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):

The Bluff Collection

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 91.XM.63.1

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:

1921, New York (nos. 98–100, as Dorothy True, 1920)
1923, New York (no. 62, as Dorothy True, 1919)
1926, Brooklyn (no. 285, as American Girl, 1919)
1930, Cambridge (no. 112, as Portrait of Dorothy T., 1919)

Lifetime Publications

A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:

“Watch Your Step!” New York Dada (April 1921) (ill., untitled)

Waldo Frank et al., America & Alfred Stieglitz (New York, 1934): pl. 29b (ill., Portrait—Dorothy True, 1919)

“Speaking of Pictures . . . These are by one of Photography’s Pioneers,” Life 14:14 (5 April 1943): 7 (ill., Dorothy True, 1918)

Inscription

by Doris Bry, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 40-D / 40-D

by later hand, on mount, center verso, in graphite: 6

Provenance

Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.

Exhibition History

1958

Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, March 16–April 27, 1958

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

1996

Making Mischief: Dada Invades New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, November 21, 1996–February 23, 1997

2001

Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2001

2002

Alfred Stieglitz: Known and Unknown, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, June 2–September 2, 2002; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 6, 2002–January 5, 2003

2005

Dada, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 2005–2006

Bibliography

1946

Engelhard, Georgia. "The Face of Alfred Stieglitz." Popular Photography 19 (September 1946): 53.

1958

Bry, Doris. Exhibition of Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1958: pl. 10.

1965

Bry, Doris. Alfred Stieglitz: Photographer. Exh. cat. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1965: pl. 29.

1983

Greenough, Sarah, and Juan Hamilton. Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings. Washington, 1983: no. 64.

1996

Naumann, Francis M. Making Mischief: Dada Invades New York. Exh. cat. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1996: 145.

2000

Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001: no. 99.

2002

Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 604.

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