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Inscribed recto, on second mount, upper center, upside-down, in graphite: "# 3"; recto, on image, lower left, in graphite: "AS"; unmarked verso
Dimensions
Image: 32.7 × 16.7 cm (12 7/8 × 6 5/8 in.); Paper: 40.3 × 21.5 cm (15 7/8 × 8 1/2 in.); First mount: 46.7 × 31.7 cm (18 7/16 × 12 1/2 in.); Second mount: 51.1 × 37.2 cm (20 1/8 × 14 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Reference Number
1949.838
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Travis, David. 1979. “Photography Rediscovered: American Photographs from 1900-1930.” Exh. cat. Whitney Museum of American Art. p. 50, fig. 154.
Robert M. Doty and William Innes Homer. 1983. “The Photo-Secession: The Golden Age of Pictorial Photography in America.” Exh. cat. The Currier Gallery of Art (now The Currier Museum of Art). p. 29. [not illustrated]
Art Institute of Chicago, Martha Tedeschi, Kristi Dahm, Ruth Fine, Charles Pietraszewski, and Christine Conniff-O’Shea. 2011. “John Marin’s Watercolors: A Medium for Modernism.” Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press. p. 102, fig. 86.
New York, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, “Photography Rediscovered: American Photographs from 1900-1930,” September 19-November 25, 1979; travel to Art Institute of Chicago, December 22, 1979-February 4, 1980. (David Travis)
Manchester, New Hampshire, The Currier Gallery of Art (now The Currier Museum of Art), “The Photo-Secession: The Golden Age of Pictorial Photography in America,” April 10-June 5, 1983.
Paris, France, Musée d’Orsay, Réunion des musées nationaux “Alfred Stieglitz and His Circle: Modernity in New York (1905–1930),” October 18, 2004–January 16, 2005; traveled to Madrid, Spain, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, February 10–May 17, 2005.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Photographs by the Score: Personal visions twenty-some years apart,” October 7, 2006–January 14, 2007. (David Travis)
New York, Seaport Museum New York, “Alfred Stieglitz: New York,” September 14, 2010-January 10, 2011.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Alfred Stieglitz and the 19th Century,” October 31, 2015-March 27, 2016. (Elizabeth Siegel)
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