The Metropolitan Museum of Art - From the Back Window

From the Back Window – 291

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Description

At the turn of the century, Stieglitz's duties as gallery owner, publisher, editor, and promoter left him little time to photograph. When the mood struck him, however, which began to happen with some frequency about 1915, he did not look far afield but photographed his colleagues at the gallery and the view from his window with a modernist rigor exceeded only by Strand.
Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Inscription: Inscribed in pencil on print, verso, upper center: "W"; center right: "1H"
Provenance

Alfred Stieglitz, New York
Notes

See variants in: Doris Bry, Alfred Stieglitz: Photographer, Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1965, pl.11, and Sarah Greenough/Juan Hamilton, Alfred Stieglitz, Photographs & Writings, New York: National Gallery of Art/Callaway Editions, 1983, pl.21. Bry titles and dates the photograph: "From the Window - "291", 1915" and Greenough/Hamilton title and date the photograph: "From the Back-Window, "291", 1915".
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