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Alfred Stieglitz

From the Back-Window—291—Wall Closing In, 1916

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Medium

platinum print

Dimensions

image: 23.5 × 19 cm (9 1/4 × 7 1/2 in.)

sheet: 25.2 × 20 cm (9 15/16 × 7 7/8 in.)
mount: 50.8 × 35.1 cm (20 × 13 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Alfred Stieglitz Collection

Accession Number

1949.3.402

Stieglitz Estate Number

96B

Key Set Number

427

Artists / Makers

Alfred Stieglitz (artist) American, 1864 - 1946

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Remarks

For more information about this photograph, see Key Set number 426.

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. 53, as Wall Closing In, 1915, from the series “From the Back-Window—291”)

Inscription

by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, center verso, in graphite: 1916

by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 96 B

Provenance

Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

O'Keeffe, Georgia

Exhibition History

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

Bibliography

1958: Bry, Doris. Exhibition of Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1958: no. 26.

2002: Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 427.