Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00000376The Steerage
About the Artwork
With his camera, Stieglitz transformed a scene of impoverished immigrants returning to Europe into a study in shape and form; the image sparked his evolution from a pictorialist into a modernist. Reflecting on his career in 1942, Stieglitz proclaimed this image, taken in 1907, as an achievement of modern art that anticipated Cubism.
Inscriptions
Written in pencil on recto of mount in lower left: “The Steerage-1907/original Photogravure/Alfred Stieglitz (signed)”
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe [1887-1986] Delacroix Davis, Jr. Ledel Gallery, New York, NY 1983: Thomas A. and Diann G. Mann, Palm Beach Gardens, FL March 4, 2019: the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 7, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Alfred Stieglitz (American, 1864–1946)
- Date
- 1907
- Medium
- photogravure
- Dimensions
- Image: 32 x 25.7 cm (12 5/8 x 10 1/8 in.); Image with black margin: 33.2 x 26.5 cm (13 1/16 x 10 7/16 in.); Paper: 40 x 27.9 cm (15 3/4 x 11 in.); Mounted: 50.8 x 38 cm (20 x 14 15/16 in.)
- Type
- Photograph
- Classification
- Photograph
- Department
- Photography
- Credit line
- Gift of Diann G. Mann and Thomas A. Mann
- Accession no.
- 2019.22
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