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ALFRED STIEGLITZ (1864–1946)
The Steerage, 1907
large format photogravure on vellum, printed 1915-1916
variously inscribed in pencil and annotated '900' in blue ink (margin); credited and titled in affixed gallery label (frame back)
image: 13 x 101⁄4 in. (33 x 26 cm.)
sheet: 181⁄8 x 121⁄2 in. (46 x 31.7 cm.)
Provenance
The Collection of Charlotte and John Parkinson III, New York;
by descent to the present owner.
Literature
Alfred Stieglitz, Camera Work, New York, no. 36, October 1911, pl. IX.
Beaumont Newhall, The History of Photography: From 1839 to the Present Day, The Museum of Modern Art/George Eastman House, New York, 1964, p. 112.
Doris Bry, Alfred Stieglitz: Photographer, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1965, pl. 8.
William Innes Homer, Alfred Stieglitz and the Photo-Secession, Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1983, p. 156.
Sarah Greenough, Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set, Volume One 1886-1922, Abrams/National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2002, pp. 190-94, cat. nos. 310-14.
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