Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00006713The Net Mender
Inscriptions
Signed recto, lower right, on image, in graphite: "Alfred Stieglitz / 1899[?]"; inscribed verso, on mount, lower left, in graphite: "Alfred Stieglitz / The Net Mender, 1894. / Leica #67B / The Alfred Stieglitz Collection"; verso, on mount, upper right, in graphite: framing diagram; verso, on mount, along right edge, sidways: "Stieglitz / [illegible] / Oak / [illegible] #XXVI / [illegible] 16 1/8 x 21"
Exhibition history
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, "Pictorial Photography in Philadelphia," March 9-April 18, 1984. Chicago, Illinois, Art Institute of Chicago, "A History of Photography from Chicago Collection," April 24–June 6, 1982. Art Institute of Chicago, Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago, Nov. 7, 2009–Jan. 31, 2010, cat. 147. Art Institute of Chicago, "Alfred Stieglitz and the 19th Century," October 31, 2015-March 27, 2016. Art Institute of Chicago, "A Field Guide to Photography and Media," Nov. 10, 2022–Apr. 10, 2023.
Publications
Travis, David. 1982. "Photography in Chicago Collections." Exh. cat. The Art Institute of Chicago. p. 23. Homer, William Innes. 1984. "Pictorial photography in Philadelphia: the Pennsylvania Academy's salons, 1898-1901" Exh. cat. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. p. 18. Judith A. Barter, ed., Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), 133–35, 201, cat. 147, fig. 16 (ill.). Matthew S. Witkovsky et al., "The Art Institute of Chicago Field Guide to Photography and Media," eds. Antawan I. Byrd, Elizabeth Siegel, and Carl Fuldner, pl. 87, p. 108 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2023).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Alfred Stieglitz / American, 1864–1946
- Date
- 1894
- Medium
- Carbon print
- Dimensions
- Image: 41.8 × 54.3 cm (16 1/2 × 21 7/16 in.); Paper/mount: 42 × 54.5 cm (16 9/16 × 21 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Photograph
- Classification
- carbon print
- Style
- Pictorialism
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Photography and Media
- Credit line
- Alfred Stieglitz Collection
- Accession no.
- 1949.690
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