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Sarah Greenough, “Alfred Stieglitz/Poplars—Lake George/1930,” Alfred Stieglitz Key Set, NGA Online Editions, https://purl.org/nga/collection/artobject/36231 (accessed November 21, 2024).

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Key Set Entry

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    Alfred Stieglitz
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    1930
    gelatin silver print
    Key Set Number 1330
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    Alfred Stieglitz
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    1930
    gelatin silver print
    Key Set Number 1331

Remarks

In 1923 and 1927 Stieglitz included photographs of the poplar trees at Lake George as part of his Songs of the Sky and Equivalent series. In the 1930s the gradual death of the poplars became a separate subject in his art.

Inscription

by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 1930

by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: 223A

by later hand, on mount, lower right verso, in graphite: X

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. 1329.

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