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Inscribed recto, on hinged mat, lower left, in graphite: Treated by Steichen 2/1950; insribed verso, upper left, in graphite: BS; verso, upper right, in graphite: H; verso, left center, in graphite: I [or 1]; verso, center, in graphite: W / white; verso, lower center, in graphite: Ch / 55A; verso, lower center, in graphite: ------; verso, lower right, in graphite: X
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Travis, David. 1979. “Photography Rediscovered: American Photographs from 1900-1930.” Exh. cat. Whitney Museum of American Art. p. 85, fig. 170.
Shimbun, Asahi. 1997. “Alfred Stieglitz and his Contemporaries.” Exh. cat. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. p. 139, pl. 136.
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)
New York, New York, Museum of Modern Art, “Alfred Stieglitz at Lake George,” September 14, 1995–January 2, 1996; traveled to Bonn, Germany, Kunst und Ausstellungshall, February 9–April 14, 1996; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, June 20–September 22, 1996.
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, “Alfred Stieglitz and his Contemporaries,” September 9–November 3, 1997.
Sante Fe, New Mexico, George O’Keeffe Museum, “Georgia O’Keeffe and the Women of the Stieglitz Circle,” September 21, 2007–January 13, 2008; traveled to Atlanta, Georgia, High Museum of Art, February 9–May 4, 2008; San Diego Museum of Art, May 24–September 28, 2008.
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