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Sarah Greenough, “Alfred Stieglitz/Georgia O'Keeffe—Torso/1918,” Alfred Stieglitz Key Set, NGA Online Editions, https://purl.org/nga/collection/artobject/60013 (accessed November 21, 2024).

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Remarks

The dates for this photograph and Key Set numbers 509 and 510 are based on similarities to Key Set number 511.

Stieglitz Collections

A corresponding print was given to the following institution(s) by Alfred Stieglitz during his lifetime, or was received or acquired from the estate:

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1997.61.21

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 24.1731 (inscribed: Torso—1919 / Photograph by / Alfred Stieglitz / Negative & Print made by / Alfred Stieglitz / Print no. 2 made from / this negative)

Other Collections

A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):

Private collection [two gelatin silver]

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:

1930, Cambridge (no. 111, as Torso, 1919)

Inscription

by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left, in graphite: Treated by Steichen 1949; lower left verso: OK 34E

by later hands, center verso, in graphite: K / OK / 34E; lower right verso: W [crossed out] Cream / med

Provenance

Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1980.

Associated Names

O'Keeffe, Georgia

Exhibition History

1992
Two Lives: O’Keeffe by Stieglitz 1917–1923, J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, CA, June 30–September 13, 1992
2012
The Serial Portrait: Photography and Identity in the Last One Hundred Years: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, September 30–December 31, 2012

Bibliography

2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 508.

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