Alfred Stieglitz

flush-mounted, mounted again to Strathmore board, titled, dated, credited, and inscribed 'for M.O.M.A.' by Dorothy Norman on the reverse, 1922

Bequest of Dorothy Norman, 1997

 

Norman, pl. XLVII (this print); Greenough 777; Alfred Stieglitz at Lake George, p. 60; Georgia O'Keeffe's Enduring Legacy, fig. 122; The New Vision, pl. 115; Photography Rediscovered, pl. 169, p. 84

This slightly warm-toned photograph, on double-weight paper with a slight surface sheen, is generally in excellent condition. There is wear at the edges and corners, resulting in some very minor chipping of the emulsion. There is a tiny circular area of what appears to be original retouching in the center of the print. In raking light, two tiny pinpoint indentations are visible in the lower portion of the print.
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In Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs, Sarah Greenough locates six other prints of this image, all in institutional collections: in The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.; the Art Institute of Chicago; the George Eastman House, Rochester, New York; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.