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Alfred Stieglitz
Description
- Alfred Stieglitz
- EVENING, NEW YORK FROM THE SHELTON
- Gelatin silver print
- 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches
Provenance
Literature
Waldo Frank, et al., America & Alfred Stieglitz: A Collective Portrait (New York, 1934), pl. 32d
Bonnie Yochelson, Alfred Stieglitz: New York (New York, 2010), p. 77
Dorothy Norman, Alfred Stieglitz: An American Seer (New York, 1960), pl. LXVIII
In Focus: Alfred Stieglitz (J. Paul Getty Museum, 1995), pl. 42
Catalogue Note
In Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set, Sarah Greenough locates prints of the image offered here in the following institutions: the National Gallery of Art; The Museum of Modern Art; the J. Paul Getty Museum; the Princeton University Art Museum; The Philadelphia Museum of Art (two prints); and the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.
“So rapidly are tall, and ever taller, buildings springing up in the metropolitan centers of the United States today that the twenty-story skyscrapers which impressed the European visitor in 1910 have either been demolished or else completely overshadowed in American architecture’s skyward race. Each month sees an old landmark tumbled into ruins and in its place a lean steel skeleton ascending toward new heights.”
Harvey Wiley Corbett, America Builds Skyward, 1932