Katharine N. Rhoades

1915

Alfred Stieglitz

Associated Names
Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

The image depicts a woman from the waist up. She is positioned with her body slightly angled towards a surface or doorway, which she holds with her left hand. Her face is directed towards the camera, with soft, relaxed facial features and slightly parted lips. She has a smooth, fair complexion and delicate, expressive eyebrows. Her hair is styled back neatly, allowing her facial features to be prominent. She is wearing long, dangling pearl-like earrings and clothing made of a sheer material layered over a slightly darker fabric, with a soft shawl-like piece draped over her shoulders. Button details run along the sleeve's seam. The background is softly blurred.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    platinum print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 24.7 x 18.7 cm (9 3/4 x 7 3/8 in.)
    sheet: 25.5 x 20.2 cm (10 1/16 x 7 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1949.3.379

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    30C

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    410

The image shows a man leaning his head on his hand, positioned with his face resting on his left hand. He has a mustache, thin-framed eyeglasses, and thick, greying hair that curls slightly at the edges. He is dressed in a formal jacket, a white shirt, and a black bow tie. The background is a soft, dark blur.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1983

  • Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, February 3–May 8, 1983; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June 17–August 14, 1983; The Art Institute of Chicago, October 18, 1983–January 3, 1984

1992

  • Stieglitz in the Darkroom, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, October 4, 1992–February 14, 1993

Bibliography

1983

  • Greenough, Sarah, and Juan Hamilton. Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings. Washington, 1983: no. 55.

1995

  • McCabe, Constance, and Lisha Deming Glinsman. "Understanding Alfred Stieglitz' Platinum and Palladium Prints: Examination by X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometry." Studies in the History of Art: Monograph Series II: Conservation Research 1995 51 (1995): fig. 12.

2002

  • Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 410.

Inscriptions

by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, lower left, in graphite: Katharine N. Rhoades / at “291” — Sunday — June 6 – 1916; upper left verso: Katharine N. Rhoades 1915
by later hand, lower left verso, in graphite: 30C

Wikidata ID

Q64034891

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Other Collections

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

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington

Location unknown (inscribed: June 1915 at 291—NY)

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