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Alfred Stieglitz

Songs of the Sky, 1923

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to image): 11.9 x 9.2 cm (4 11/16 x 3 5/8 in.)
mount: 34.3 x 27.6 cm (13 1/2 x 10 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Alfred Stieglitz Collection

Accession Number

1949.3.1136

Stieglitz Estate Number

258C

Key Set Number

928

Artists / Makers

Alfred Stieglitz (artist) American, 1864 - 1946

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Remarks

The date is based on similarities to other cloud photographs made in 1923.

A print of this image is mounted to the back of a variant of Crow’s Feather and Apple (Key Set number 1039) at Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven (YCAL MSS 85, box 148, folder 2747), dated 1924.

Inscription

by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: 258C

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. 928.