
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00006728The Steerage
Inscriptions
Unmarked recto; inscribed verso, on second mount, lower left, in graphite: 125D
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, "Photographs from the Permanent Collection," March 20–May 30, 1976. (Miles Barth) (Either this or 1949.847) New York, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, "Photography Rediscovered: American Photographs from 1900-1930," September 19-November 25, 1979; travel to Art Institute of Chicago, December 22, 1979-February 4, 1980. (David Travis) Minneapolis, Minnesota, The Minneapolis Museum of Art, "Camera Work: Process and Image," August 31-November 3, 1985; traveled to Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, November 22, 1985-February 2, 1986. Art Institute of Chicago, "Out of a Dark Room: Photographic Variations from the Permanent Collection," April 15–September 10, 1995. (Sylvia Wolf) Rochester, New York, "The Photography of Alfred Stieglitz: Georgia O'Keeffe's Enduring Legacy," 2000. (note: dates and location of traveling exhibition unknown) Art Institute of Chicago, "From Darkroom to Digital: Photographic Varations," November 19–February 26, 2006. (Elizabeth Siegel) Berlin, Germany, Gallery Kicken, "Kicken in Wien, Die Weltmeister," Fall 2008. New York, Seaport Museum New York, "Alfred Stieglitz: New York," September 14, 2010-January 10, 2011. Art Institute of Chicago, "Alfred Stieglitz and the 19th Century," October 31, 2015-March 27, 2016. (Elizabeth Siegel)
Publications
Travis, David. 1979. "Photography Rediscovered: American Photographs from 1900-1930." Exh. cat. Whitney Museum of American Art. p. 176, fig. 156. Gilbert. Rita. 1988. "Living with Art." McGraw-Hill Education. p. 228. fig. 265.
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
- 1907, printed 1920/39
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image/paper/first mount: 11 × 9.2 cm (4 3/8 × 3 5/8 in.); Second mount: 31.7 × 24.7 cm (12 1/2 × 9 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Photograph
- Classification
- gelatin silver (developing-out-paper) pr
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Photography and Media
- Credit line
- Alfred Stieglitz Collection
- Accession no.
- 1949.705
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