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Alfred Stieglitz

The Letterbox, 1894, printed 1895/1896

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volume Title

Sun Prints, 1

Medium

platinum print

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to image): 21.1 × 16.5 cm (8 5/16 × 6 1/2 in.)
page size: 33.8 × 27 cm (13 5/16 × 10 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Alfred Stieglitz Collection

Accession Number

1949.3.157

Stieglitz Estate Number

61C

Key Set Number

182

Artists / Makers

Alfred Stieglitz (artist) American, 1864 - 1946

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Remarks

For more information about this photograph, see Key Set number 181.

For Stieglitz's description of Gutach, where this view was made, see Key Set number 171.

Inscription

by Alfred Stieglitz, on interleaving tissue, lower right, in graphite: The Letterbox / 1894

Provenance

Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

O'Keeffe, Georgia

Exhibition History

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

Bibliography

2002: Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 182.