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Alfred Stieglitz

From a Lenbach Sketch, 1886, printed 1895/1896

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volume Title

Sun Prints, 2

Medium

platinum print

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to image): 17.9 × 11.2 cm (7 1/16 × 4 7/16 in.)
page size: 34.8 × 27 cm (13 11/16 × 10 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Alfred Stieglitz Collection

Accession Number

1949.3.28

Stieglitz Estate Number

70E

Key Set Number

Artists / Makers

Alfred Stieglitz (artist) American, 1864 - 1946

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Remarks

Through friendships with sculptors Moses Ezekiel and Erdmann Encke, Stieglitz received commissions to photograph paintings and drawings by fellow artists, including Franz von Lenbach. The subject and date of the sketch have not been identified.

Inscription

by Alfred Stieglitz, on interleaving tissue, lower right, in graphite: From a Lenbach Sketch / 1886

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. 32.