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Stieglitz, Alfred
American (1864-1946)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Wet Day on the Boulevard, Paris

1894 / printed later
carbon print
19.4 x 36.0 cm.
Part purchase and part gift of An American Place, ex-collection Georgia O'Keeffe
GEH NEG: 2787
74:0052:0082

OLD GEH NUMBER: 2259-6
NON-GEH NUMBER: 109A

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Frank, Waldo, ed. & Mumford, Lewis, ed. & Norman, Dorothy, ed. --America & Alfred Stieglitz.-- Millerton, NY: Aperture, Inc., 1934/1979. pl. 8.//
Bry, Doris. --Alfred Stieglitz: Photographer.-- Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1965. pl. 5.//
Norman, Dorothy. --Alfred Stieglitz: An American Seer.-- New York: 1973. pl. VIII.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY: "Selections from the Alfred Stieglitz Collection", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Second Floor Galleries, September - December, 1987.//

INSCRIPTION: verso-(in pencil) "Photograph (carbon print) by Alfred Stieglitz 1894 Wet Day on the Boulevard, Paris" "First photograph of the kind ever made (?)"

NOTES: Cataloged 7/87, DZ. Maker # ("Estate" or "Bry" or "Leica" number) from Museum acquisition documents, 1951.

SUBJECTS:
cityscape, figures in
transportation, horse drawn

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