From the Back-Window "291" Snow-Covered Tree, Back-Yard

Photography and Media

1915

Alfred Stieglitz
American, 1864–1946

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Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Alfred Stieglitz
Title: From the Back-Window "291" Snow-Covered Tree, Back-Yard
Origin: United States
Date: Made 1915
Medium: Platinum print
Inscriptions: Unmarked recto; inscribed verso, on mount, lower left, in graphite: "12C"; Unmarked print verso
Dimensions: 24.2 × 19.3 (image); 25.2 × 20.2 cm (paper); 50.5 × 32.5 cm (mount)
Credit Line: Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Reference Number: 1949.709
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Travis, David. 1979. “Photography Rediscovered: American Photographs from 1900-1930.” Exh. cat. Whitney Museum of American Art. p. 51, fig. 161.
Shimbun, Asahi. 1997. “Alfred Stieglitz and his Contemporaries.” Exh. cat. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. p. 125, pl. 122.

New York, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, “Photography Rediscovered: American Photographs from 1900-1930,” September 19-November 25, 1979; travel to Art Institute of Chicago, December 22, 1979-February 4, 1980. (David Travis)
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, “Alfred Stieglitz and his Contemporaries,” September 9–November 3, 1997.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Alfred Stieglitz and the 19th Century,” October 31, 2015-March 27, 2016.

The Alfred Stieglitz Collection

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