
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00006843The City of Ambitions
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, lower right, below image, in graphite: Stieglitz [underlined]; unmarked verso
Exhibition history
New York, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, "The New Vision: Photography Between the World Wars," September 22-December 31, 1989; traveled to San Franciso Museum of Modern Art, February 28-April 22, 1990; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, May 10-July 15, 1990; Art Institute of Chicago, September 15- December 1, 1990; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, February 5-April 28, 1991; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, June 8-August 4, 1991. Art Institute of Chicago, "Industrial Effects: Twentieth Century Photographs from the Permanent Collection," July 24-October 17, 1993. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, "Alfred Stieglitz and his Contemporaries," September 9–November 3, 1997. New York, New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, "The American Century: Art and Culture" April 22 - August 22, 1999. Rochester, New York, "The Photography of Alfred Stieglitz: Georgia O'Keeffe's Enduring Legacy," 2000. (note: dates and location of traveling exhibition unknown) 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.
Publications
Hambourg, Maria Morris and Christopher Phillips. 1989. "The New Vision: Photography Between the World Wars." Exh. cat. The Metropolitain Museum of Art/Harry N. Abrams. p. 7. Bersson, Robert. 1991. “Worlds of Art.” Mountain View, California. n.p. Fryd, Vivien Green. 2000. “Georgia O’Keeffe’s Radiator Building: Gender, Sexuality, Modernism and Urban Imagery.” Winterthur Portfolio/University of Chicago Press. Bersson, Robert. 2004. “Responding to Art: Form, Content, and Context.” McGraw-Hill, Boston. n.p. Art Institute of Chicago, Martha Tedeschi, Kristi Dahm, Ruth Fine, Charles Pietraszewski, and Christine Conniff-O'Shea. 2011. "John Marin's Watercolors: A Medium for Modernism." Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press. p. 110, fig. 88. Shimbun, Asahi. 1997. “Alfred Stieglitz and his Contemporaries.” Exh. cat. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. p. 48, pl. 28.
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
- 1910
- Medium
- Photogravure
- Dimensions
- Image: 33.9 × 26.1 cm (13 3/8 × 10 5/16 in.); Paper: 40 × 28.1 cm (15 3/4 × 11 1/8 in.); Mount: 44.9 × 36.4 cm (17 11/16 × 14 3/8 in.)
- Type
- Photograph
- Classification
- photogravure
- Style
- Pictorialism
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Photography and Media
- Credit line
- Alfred Stieglitz Collection
- Accession no.
- 1949.836
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