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- Alfred Stieglitz
- Winter, Fifth Avenue
- 1893, printed 1894
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- Winter, Fifth Avenue
- 1893, printed 1897
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- Alfred Stieglitz
- Winter on Fifth Avenue
- 1893, printed 1929/1932
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- Key Set Number 86
- same negative
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- Alfred Stieglitz
- Winter on Fifth Avenue
- 1893, printed 1929/1932
- gelatin silver print
- Key Set Number 87
- same negative
Remarks
Even though Stieglitz later recalled making this print in 1894, it has to have been made after the publication of Picturesque Bits of New York and Other Studies in 1897 because several railroad ties, which are present in the lower left of Key Set numbers
For more information about this photograph, see Key Set number
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:
George Eastman Museum, Rochester, 72:0176:0001 [carbon] (inscribed: Winter—Fifth Avenue (1892) / by Alfred Stieglitz / (New York) / Property OKeeffe [circled] / Alfred Stieglitz / Value $2000 [crossed out] / 3W29 / A / Cut a[n] fr. to / 12 1/2 × 15 1/2 / + color outside / very [dark] gray almost / black)
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1949.3.94 [platinum]
Inscription
by Alfred Stieglitz, upper center verso, in graphite: #5; on mount, upper center verso, in graphite: #7; on backing board, verso, on Alfred Stieglitz Collection label, in ink: Winter—Fifth Avenue / Alfred Stieglitz [underlined] / Carbon [underlined] / Negative made in 1892. 4 x 5 size. My first hand- / camera "shot." Print made in 1894. Only two / other prints—good ones—in existence: This / photograph is the basis of so-called "American / Photography." Shown in every important / exhibition since then; on 1909 Dresden exhibition label, in ink: Winter—Fifth Avenue (1892) / Alfred Stieglitz / New York / 700 Marks [crossed out] / Value $3000
Exhibition History
- 1992
- Photography in Nineteenth-Century America, Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA, 1992
- 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. 84.
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