The Street, Fifth Avenue

Photography and Media

1900/01, printed 1903/04

Alfred Stieglitz
American, 1864–1946

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Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Alfred Stieglitz
Title: The Street, Fifth Avenue
Origin: United States
Date: Made 1900–1901
Medium: Photogravure
Inscriptions: Insribed recto, on paper, upper center, upside-down, in graphite: "#14"; recto, on image, lower left, in graphite: "AS"; recto, on mount, lower left, sideways, in graphite: "2 Mounted [underlined] Mats."; recto, on mount, lower left, sideways, in graphite: "11 3 3/4 [crossed out]"; signed recto, on mount, lower center, in graphite: "Stieglitz #11"; inscribed verso, on mount, lower right, in graphite: "3/16 / 1/4 full / the Street (Design for a Poster)"
Dimensions: 30.8 × 23.4 cm (image); 40.4 × 28.1 cm (paper); 43.5 × 30.8 cm (mount)
Credit Line: Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Reference Number: 1949.839
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Vancouver, British Columbia, Vancouver Art Gallery, “Truth Beauty: Pictorialism and the Photographs as Art, 1845-1945,” February 2-April 27, 2008. (Alison Nordstrom)
New York, Seaport Museum New York, “Alfred Stieglitz: New York,” September 14, 2010-January 10, 2011.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Alfred Stieglitz and the 19th Century,” October 31, 2015-March 27, 2016.

The Alfred Stieglitz Collection

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