Modern America: The Wolf Family Collection

Modern America: The Wolf Family Collection

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Alfred Stieglitz

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.)

Doris Bry, New York
Wolf Family Collection No. 0580 (acquired from the above, December 17, 1975)
Other prints of this image:

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

Washington, D. C., National Gallery of Art, On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography, May - July 1989, and traveling thereafter to:
The Art Institute of Chicago September – November, 1989
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 1989 – February, 1990