Alfred Stieglitz

mounted, signed, titled, dated, annotated 'With permission An American Place' and 'Kindly return to' in pencil and with the photographer's '509 Madison Avenue, New York, N. Y.' stamp and reduction notations in pencil on the mount, numerical and reduction notations in pencil and 'Popular Photography Roto Page' and use date stamps on the reverse, 1933, printed no later than 1946

The photographer to his niece Georgia Engelhard

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Georgia Engelhard, 'The Face of Alfred Stieglitz,' Popular Photography, September 1946, Vol. 19, No. 3, p. 53 (this print)

Waldo Frank, et al., America and Alfred Stieglitz: A Collective Portrait (New York, 1934), pl. 30B

Georgia Engelhard, 'Alfred Stieglitz: ''Father of Photography,''' The Camera, June 1947, No. 69, p. 53

Georgia O'Keeffe, Georgia O'Keeffe: A Portrait by Alfred Stieglitz (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1978), pl. 47

In Focus: Alfred Stieglitz (J. Paul Getty Museum, 1995), pl. 48

This photograph is on paper with slightly warm tones and a glossy surface. The surface shows some of the faint inconsistences characteristic of very glossy photographs, including pitting and very light scuffs, all of which can be seen only when the print is examined closely in raking light. The mount is thin cream-colored board that shows some occasional soiling as well as fingerprints in the lower left corner. There is soiling on the reverse, and pinholes in each of the mount's four corners.
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In Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set, Sarah Greenough locates only 5 other prints of this image, all in institutional collections.