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ALFRED STIEGLITZ (1864–1946)
The Letter Box, 1894
photogravure, printed 1897 for Picturesque Bits of New York and Other Studies
printed copyright credit with date '1895' (margin); annotated 'gift of Dorothy Norman, 1963' with Museum of Modern Art Photography Department Study Collection stamp (verso)
image: 7 3/4 x 5 3/4 in. (19.6 x 14.5 cm.)
sheet: 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.7 cm.)
The portfolio Picturesque Bits of New York and Other Studies is an edition of twenty-five.
Provenance
Gifted by Dorothy Norman (1905–1997), c. 1963.
Literature
Photographic Times, Number 26, January 1895, frontispiece.
Camera Notes, Volume 2, Issue 1, July 1898, p. 11.
'The Photographer as Artist', The New York Times Illustrated Magazine, January 4, 1898, p. 7.
Sarah Greenough, Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set, Volume One 1896-1922, Abrams/National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2002, p. 108, cat. no. 181.
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