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Stieglitz, Alfred
American (1864-1946)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Clouds, Music No. 1, Lake George
PUBLISHED TITLE: Music - A Sequence of Ten Cloud Photographs, No. 1

1922
palladium print
20.1 x 25.3 cm.
Part purchase and part gift of An American Place, ex-collection Georgia O'Keeffe
GEH NEG: 8662
74:0052:0067

OLD GEH NUMBER: 2259-24
NON-GEH NUMBER: 27B

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Bry, Doris. --Alfred Stieglitz: Photographer.-- Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1965. pl. 38.//
Norman, Dorothy. --Alfred Stieglitz: An American Seer.-- New York: 1973. pl. XXXIX.//
Greenough, Sarah & Hamilton, Juan. --Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs & Writings.-- Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1982. pl. 56.//
Arrowsmith, Alexandra, ed. & West, Thomas, ed. --Georgia O'Keeffe & Alfred Stieglitz: Two Lives.-- Washington, DC: HarperCollins Publishers / Callaway Editions, 1992. p. 38.//
Naef, Weston J., ed. --In Focus: Alfred Stieglitz. Photographs from the J. Paul Gelly Museum.-- Malibu, CA: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1995. pl. 35.//
Szarkowski, John. --Alfred Stieglitz at Lake George.-- New York: The Museum of Mordern Art, 1995. p. 67.//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 484.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"Photography 64/ An Invitational Exhibition", US, NY, Rochester, GEH -, September 1 -, 1964.//
"Selections from the Alfred Stieglitz Collection", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Second Floor Galleries, September - December, 1987.//
"Alfred Stieglitz at Lake George", US, NY, New York, Museum of Modern Art, September 14, 1995 - January 2, 1996.//
"Alfred Stieglitz at Lake George", Germany, Bonn, Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik, February 9 - April 14, 1996.//
"Alfred Stieglitz at Lake George", US, CA, San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, June 20 - September 22, 1996.//
"Eventful Camera", US, NY, Rochester July 24, 1999 - March 12, 2000.//

INSCRIPTION: recto-(on mount, in pencil) "Treated by Steichen for S...(illeg.) 5/49" (on mount, under image) "Peabody House" verso-(in pencil) "27B"

NOTES: Cataloged 7/87, DZ. Published title from --Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs & Writings-- & --Alfred Stieglitz at Lake George--. Research has indicated that it was in 1922 that Stieglitz produced his first series of images of clouds titled "Music - A Sequence of Ten Cloud Photographs." [Christies, New York, "Photographs," 29 April 1999 auction catalogue, p. 176]

SUBJECTS:
study, clouds
landscape, mountains

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