Alfred Stieglitz

hand-pulled, large-format photogravure on Japan vellum, 1900-01, printed in 1903-04

The photographer to Dorothy Norman

To Norman's personal assistant, Simone Zarchin

Eva Feldman, inherited from the above, 1952

By descent to the present owner

Other prints of this image:

Greenough 269

Camera Work Number 36, pl. XVI

Sarah Greenough and Juan Hamilton, Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 1983, in conjunction with the exhibition), pl. 13

William Innes Homer and Catherine Johnson, Stieglitz and the Photo-Secession, 1902 (New York, 2002), cover and unpaginated

Dorothy Norman, Alfred Stieglitz: An American Seer (New York, 1973), pl. 9; Aperture edition, p. 53

Therese Mulligan, ed., The Photography of Alfred Stieglitz: Georgia O'Keeffe's Enduring Legacy (Rochester: George Eastman House, 2000), no. 68

Christian A. Peterson, Alfred Stieglitz's Camera Notes (Minneapolis, 1993), cover and pl. 82

Sarah Greenough et al., Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 2000, in conjunction with the exhibition), fig. 13

Douglas R. Nickel, Picturing Modernity: Highlights from the Photography Collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco, 1998), pl. 16

This early, large-format photogravure on Japan vellum is in generally very good to excellent condition. There is age-darkening at the periphery, and the upper right margin edge is creased. There is light soiling and droplet-like deposits of an indeterminate nature on the reverse that do not affect the image in any way.
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