The Alfred Stieglitz Collection
  • Recto of print
  • Recto of print with original window mat open
  • Recto of print with original window mat
  • Recto of entire sheet
  • Recto of print with original window mat cropping
  • Verso of original mount
  • Recto of print detail
  • Exhibition view showing a print of the work alongside works by Pablo Picasso, Auguste Rodin, and Georgia O’Keeffe in Beginnings and Landmarks at An American Place (1937)

Alfred Stieglitz (American, 1864–1946)

Marsden Hartley, 1916

Platinum print; 24.5 x 19.5 cm (image); 25.4 x 20.3 cm (paper); 50.8 x 38.1 cm (hinged mat)
Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949.711

 

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