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Stieglitz, Alfred
American (1864-1946)

TITLE ON OBJECT: "Life and Death"
TITLE ON OBJECT: Dead Tree-Lake George

ca. 1927
gelatin silver print
23.1 x 15.1 cm.
Gift of Dorothy Norman
GEH NEG: 48655
68:0027:0002

EXHIBITION HISTORY: "Language of Light: Masterworks from the George Eastman House Collection", Japan, Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, November 18, 1995 - January ??, 1996.//

INSCRIPTION: verso-(in pencil) "Dead Tree - Lake George 1934 [sic] Also called 'Life and Death' by Stieglitz" verso-(original backing, in ink) "For Mrs. Louis Steichen from Alfred Stieglitz (underlined) who is eternally in debt to her & her husband An American Place Jan.24 - 1938" (in pencil) "Original by Alfred Stieglitz inscribed to Dorothy Norman's mother (sic) by A.S. in his handwriting" "For Philadelphia Museum Collection Dorothy Norman (lined out)" "given by Mrs. Steichen to Dorothy Norman"...

NOTES: Catalogued 7/87, DZ. In a letter accompanying the donation of this work to the Eastman House, Dorothy Norman states that she was "making this gift...to honor the extraordinarily fine work that Mr. Newhall continues to do. I want you to know how much I admire his scholarship as well as all of his other fine qualities." [Dorothy Norman to Dr. Cyril Stoud, March 4, 1968] Date from National Gallery of Art, 2/2000.

SUBJECT: study, tree

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