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Alfred Stieglitz

Songs of the Sky P4, 1923

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to image): 11.8 x 9.1 cm (4 5/8 x 3 9/16 in.)
mount: 34.3 x 27.6 cm (13 1/2 x 10 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Alfred Stieglitz Collection

Accession Number

1949.3.887

Stieglitz Estate Number

260D

Key Set Number

885

Artists / Makers

Alfred Stieglitz (artist) American, 1864 - 1946

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Remarks

This photograph and Key Set numbers 882, 883, 884, and 886 came to the National Gallery of Art in a presentation folder inscribed by Stieglitz: Songs of the Sky, P₁–P₅, 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:

1932, New York (no. 66, as Poplar Windblown, 1924)

Inscription

by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, upper center verso, in graphite: Top; upper left verso: P4 [4 in subscript]; center verso: Ex 1932; lower left verso: P4 [4 in subscript]

by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: 260C

by later hand, on mount, upper right verso, in blue pencil, circled: M

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. 2, cat. 885.