From the Back-Window “291” Snow-Covered Tree, Back-Yard
Date:
1915
Artist:
Alfred Stieglitz American, 1864–1946
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From the Back-Window "291" Snow-Covered Tree, Back-Yard
Place
United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date
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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.
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