About this artwork
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Photography and Media
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Artist
- Edward Steichen
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Title
- The Pool
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- Made 1899
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Medium
- Platinum print
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Inscriptions
- Inscribed recto, on mount, lower center, in graphite: [graphic signature with flower and S]; verso, on mount, upper left: [MOMA loan label]; inscribed verso, on mount, center, in graphite: Steichen's first "Masterpiece (1900) / AS / May 23 / 1929 [not entirely legible/crossed out]; verso, center, in graphite: The Pool [underlined] / The Original Print (Platinum) / bought from Stiechen 1900 for / $5 00 [underlined] (New York) / Alfred Stieglitz"; verso, lower right, in graphite: Bought in 1901 [double underlined]; verso, lower right, diagonally, in graphite: Steichen; verso, lower right, in graphite: 54 [encircled]; verso, lower right, in graphite: 21/59; verso, lower right, in graphite: AIC C/E 61.171.6 / 61.279; verso, upper left, in graphite: 23 [encircled]; verso, upper left, in graphite: 26 [crossed out]; verso, upper left, in graphite: no glass[?] [underlined]; verso, upper left, in graphite: Stieglitz; verso, upper right, in graphite: Cut from [illegibile] to R 13 7/8 x 17 1/2 [crossed out]; verso, upper right, in graphite: [?] 1/4 107-29[?] / R 13 7/8 x 17[?] / [illegible]
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Dimensions
- 21.3 × 16.1 cm (image) 43.2 × 34 cm (mount)
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Credit Line
- Alfred Stieglitz Collection
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Reference Number
- 1949.873
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Copyright
- © 2018 The Estate of Edward Steichen/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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