Modern America: The Wolf Family Collection
Modern America: The Wolf Family Collection
The Hand of Man
Auction Closed
April 20, 07:56 PM GMT
Estimate
70,000 - 100,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Alfred Stieglitz
1864 - 1946
The Hand of Man
large-format photogravure on Japan laid paper, signed, titled, and dated in pencil in the margin, 1902, printed in 1910
9⅝ x 12⅝ in. (24.4 x 32.1 cm.)
Greenough 278
Camera Work Number 1 (1903) and Camera Work Number 36 (1911)
Waldo Frank, Dorothy Norman, et al., America and Alfred Stieglitz (New York, 1934), pl. XXV – B
Robert Doty, Photo-Secession: Photography as a Fine Art (Rochester: George Eastman House, 1960), pl. 7
Doris Bry, Alfred Stieglitz: Photographer (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1965), pl. 7
Dorothy Norman, Alfred Stieglitz: An American Seer (New York, 1973), pl. X
Robert Doty, Photography in America (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1974), p. 99
William Innes Homer, Stieglitz and the American Avant-Garde (Boston, 1977), pl. 8
Karen Tsujimoto, Images of America: Precisionist Painting and Modern Photography (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1982), p. 91
Sarah Greenough and Juan Hamilton, Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 1983), pl. 15
Maria Morris Hambourg and Christopher Phillips, The New Vision: Photography Between the World Wars, Ford Motor Company Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1989), p. 6
Alfred Stieglitz (Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1995), pl. 4
Richard Whelan, ed., Stieglitz on Photography: His Selected Essays and Notes (Aperture, 2000), p. 187
Sarah Greenough, Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 2000), pls. 277-80
Therese Mulligan, ed., The Photography of Alfred Stieglitz: Georgia O’Keeffe’s Enduring Legacy (Rochester: George Eastman House, 2000), fig. 17 and pl. 6