Long Underwear, Lake George, 1924

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Remarks

Several portraits of Ida O’Keeffe standing next to her long underwear are at Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven (YCAL MSS 85, box 148, folder 2747), one inscribed: Who is this maiden fair? / And why is she smiling? / May be she sees a bird—/ may be it’s just a photo- / graphic smile—/ Who is this maiden / with the raven hair? / What is hanging on the line?—/ Nothing—oh nothing / is hanging on the line—/ except a Smile—/ 1924/25 / Lake George. The other is inscribed: In Union / there is / Strength / and / A Smile.

Inscription

by George O'Keeffe, on mount, top left verso, in graphite: 265 E

Provenance

Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.

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

Bibliography

1983

Greenough, Sarah, and Juan Hamilton. Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings. Washington, 1983: no. 112.

1990

Lowe, Sue Davidson. "Taken Lightly." Art & Antiques (Summer 1990): repro. 110.

2002

Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 1034.

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