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Unmarked recto; inscribed verso on second mount, left center, upside-down, in graphite: 15 7/8 - 20 3/8; verso, on second mount, lower right, diagonally, in graphite: --------- / Glass needed for 15 15/16 x 20 3/8 shows / -------- / picture inside Care!; verso, on second mount, lower left, in graphite: 14 A
Dimensions
Image/paper/first mount: 24.4 × 19.3 cm (9 5/8 × 7 5/8 in.); Second mount: 51.5 × 40.6 cm (20 5/16 × 16 in.)
Credit Line
Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Reference Number
1949.763
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Annear, Judy and Sarah Greenough. 2010. “Alfred Stieglitz: The Lake George Years.” Exh. cat. Art Gallery of New South Wales. p. 130.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Seldom Seen Photographs from the Permanent Collection,” June 5, 1976-August 15, 1976.
Washington D.C., The Phillips Collection, “Two Lives: Stieglitz and O’Keeffe,” December 12, 1992–April 4, 1993; traveled to New York, New York, The IBM Gallery, April 27–June 26, 1993; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, July 17–September 12, 1993; and Houston, Texas, The Museum of Fine Arts, October 2–December 5, 1993.
Monclair, New Jersey, Montclair Art Museum, “Reordering Reality: Precisionist Directions in American Art, 1915–1941,” November 20, 1994–January 22, 1995; traveled to West Palm Beach, Florida, Norton Gallery and School of Art, February 4–April 2, 1995; Columbus, Ohio, Columbus Museum of Art, June–July, 1995; Lincoln, Nebraska, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, September–October, 1995.
Sydney, Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, “Alfred Stieglitz: The Lake George Years,” June 17–September 5, 2010.
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