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Sarah Greenough, “Alfred Stieglitz/John Marin, the Water Colorist/1921/1922,” Alfred Stieglitz Key Set, NGA Online Editions, https://purl.org/nga/collection/artobject/35663 (accessed November 21, 2024).

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Key Set Entry

Related Key Set Photographs

  • image: John Marin, the Water Colorist
    Alfred Stieglitz
    John Marin, the Water Colorist
    1921/1922
    gelatin silver print
    Key Set Number 709
    same negative
  • image: John Marin
    Alfred Stieglitz
    John Marin
    1921/1922
    palladium print
    Key Set Number 706
  • image: John Marin
    Alfred Stieglitz
    John Marin
    1921/1922
    gelatin silver print
    Key Set Number 707
  • image: John Marin
    Alfred Stieglitz
    John Marin
    1921/1922
    palladium print
    Key Set Number 710

Remarks

Although Stieglitz must have made the negatives for this photograph and Key Set numbers 706, 707, 709, and 710 during the same sitting, he inscribed some prints 1921, others 1922.

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 1923, New York (nos. 64–66, as John Marin, 1922)

Inscription

by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, bottom left, in graphite: Treated by Steichen 1949; on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 84 B

by later hand, center verso, in graphite: R [star] / K / 84 B

Provenance

Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

O'Keeffe, Georgia

Bibliography

2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 708.

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