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Remarks
On 2 September 1923 Stieglitz wrote to Sherwood Anderson that he had “been busy with clouds and clouds and tree tops. A small camera. To see what ‘bigness’ might be coaxed out of small areas” (YCAL and Newberry Library).
“So, one of the clouds is a portrait of me! How very exciting! I hope it is winged—not too ominous—& is turned to the light. Tonight I should like a cloud to float upon—to float very far away—in a space where feeling and thought and—most of all—Being, are pure and clear” (Katharine Rhoades to Stieglitz, 21 December 1923, YCAL).
In 1924 this photograph and Key Set numbers
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, YCAL MSS 85, box 148, folder 2764 (inscribed [to Selma Stieglitz Schubart]: Love from the Hill—G. & I hope / you’ll have a good trip & get / some real “rest.”—Drop us an occasional card & let us / know how you are. If you see any one I know remember me / to them. I am forgetting no one in spite of Silences.—/ Our love.—Much from me / Al / L.G.—Sept.—1923)
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:
1924, New York (nos. 14–19, as Portrait—K. N. R.)
Inscription
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite, circled: C1 [1 in subscript]
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: 158-D
Exhibition History
- 2016
- This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Reimagining Representation in American Art, 1912–Today, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, June 24–October 17, 2016
Bibliography
- 2002
- Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 876.
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