Alfred Stieglitz - The Odyssey of Collecting: Photographs from Joy of Giving Something Foundation, Part 2 New York Tuesday, April 4, 2017 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Doris Bry, New York, 1994

  • Literature

    Greenough, Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set (Volume Two), no. 874
    Bry, Alfred Stieglitz: Photographer, pl. 45

  • Catalogue Essay

    Window: Wood, Glass, Snow is an early example of Alfred Stieglitz’s mature modern style and his commitment to an authentic American identity in art. It was exhibited at the Anderson Galleries in 1924, and two years later included in the Société Anonyme’s An International Exhibition of Modern Art at the Brooklyn Museum. Like the later New York studies made from the Shelton Hotel (see Lot 3), this image of a chicken house window on his family’s estate in Lake George is rooted in a place he knew as home. In the 1926 Brooklyn exhibition, Stieglitz titled the present photograph Portrait of a Family.

    In Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set, Sarah Greenough locates only one print of this image outside of an institutional collection, likely the print offered here.

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Window: Wood, Glass, Snow

1923
Gelatin silver print, flush-mounted and mounted again.
9 1/4 x 7 3/8 in. (23.5 x 18.7 cm)
Numbered '43C' in pencil on the reverse of the mount.

Estimate
$50,000 - 70,000 

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The Odyssey of Collecting: Photographs from Joy of Giving Something Foundation, Part 2

New York 4 April 2017