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Sarah Greenough, “Alfred Stieglitz/The Letterbox/1894, printed 1895/1896,” Alfred Stieglitz Key Set, NGA Online Editions, https://purl.org/nga/collection/artobject/205664 (accessed November 21, 2024).

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Key Set Entry

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  • Alfred Stieglitz
    The Letterbox
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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.

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