New York from the Shelton

Photography and Media

1935

Alfred Stieglitz
American, 1864–1946

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Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Alfred Stieglitz
Title: New York from the Shelton
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1935
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Inscriptions: Unmarked recto; inscribed verso, on second mount, upper left, in graphite: 2 [in rectangle]; verso, on second mount, lower left, in graphite: A 1; verso, on second mount, lower left, in graphite: 3 D
Dimensions: Image/paper/first mount: 24.2 × 19.3 cm (9 9/16 × 7 5/8 in.); Second mount: 52.8 × 39.5 cm (20 13/16 × 15 9/16 in.)
Credit Line: Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Reference Number: 1949.786
IIIF Manifest The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) represents a set of open standards that enables rich access to digital media from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions around the world. Learn more.: https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/66564/manifest.json

Shimbun, Asahi. 1997. “Alfred Stieglitz and his Contemporaries.” Exh. cat. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. p. 128, pl. 125.

Art Institute of Chicago, “Textures and Fragments of the City: 20th Century Photographs from the Art Institute of Chicago Collection,” August 4-July 29, 1973. (David Travis)
New York, New York, Pace/MacGill Gallery, “Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs from the Collection of Georgia O’Keeffe,” September 9–October 23, 1993.
Rochester, New York, “The Photography of Alfred Stieglitz: Georgia O’Keeffe’s Enduring Legacy,” 2000. (note: dates and location of traveling exhibition unknown)
Davenport, IA, Figge Arts Center, “The Great American Thing: Modern Art and National Identity,” September 17, 2005–January 1, 2006; traveled to Tacoma Art Museum, January 29–May 21, 2006.
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, “Alfred Stieglitz and his Contemporaries,” September 9–November 3, 1997.

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