The Mauretania, 1910, printed 1911

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Remarks

Stieglitz likely made this view of the world's then-largest and fastest ship from a pier at the foot of Cortlandt Street in lower Manhattan.

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:

1910, Buffalo (no. 441, as Outward Bound, The “Mauretania,” 1910, photogravure)
1913, New York (no. 24, as Outward Bound, The Mauretania, 1910)
1921, New York (no. 21, as Outward Bound, 1910)
1932, New York (no. 45, as The Mauretania, 1910, gelatin silver print)
1944, Philadelphia (no. 23, as Mauretania, 1910, photogravure)

Lifetime Publications

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

Camera Work 36 (October 1911): pl. 4 (ill., The Mauretania, 1910)

Note

Image courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Provenance

Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.

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. 334.

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