The Alfred Stieglitz Collection
  • Recto of print
  • Recto of print with original mount
  • Verso of original mount
  • Exhibition view showing a print of the work in History of an American, Alfred Stieglitz: “291” and After at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (1944)

Alfred Stieglitz (American, 1864–1946)

Arthur G. Dove, 1923

Gelatin silver print; 24.3 x 19.2 cm (image/paper/first mount); 56.3 x 46.3 cm (second mount)
Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949.717

 

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