From the Back-Window—291, 1915

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Remarks

This photograph was made on April 3, 1915, when an improbable Easter weekend blizzard dropped more than ten inches of snow on New York.

Other Collections

A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1870.2001 (inscribed: From the Back Window at “291” / April 3–1915. / To Marie / from AS / Apr. 24–1916.)

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:

possibly 1921, New York (no. 45, as Buildings in Snow, 1915, from the series “From the Back-Window—291”)

Inscription

by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, lower center, in graphite: 1915 from Backwindow, 291 —; center left verso: 1915-1

by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 90 E

by later hand, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: 1

Provenance

Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.

Exhibition History

1958

Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, March 16–April 27, 1958

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

1958

Bry, Doris. Exhibition of Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1958: 20.

2002

Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 420.

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