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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    The Steerage
    Alfred Stieglitz. The Steerage, 1907, printed 1915. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00006853

    The Steerage

    by Alfred Stieglitz

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Inscribed recto, lower left, below image, in graphite: The Steerage [underlined]; signed recto, lower right, below image, in graphite: Stieglitz - 1907; inscribed verso, on mount, left center to center, upside-down, in graphite: [illegible] [drawing of mat?]

    Exhibition history

    Art Institute of Chicago, "Photographs from the Permanent Collection," March 20–May 30, 1976. (Miles Barth) (Either this or 1949.705) Paris, France, Centre Georges Pompidou, "L'invention d'un Art," October 12, 1989–January 1, 1990. 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 Variations," November 19, 2005–February 26, 2006. (Elizabeth Siegel) Berlin, Germany, Gallery Kicken, "Kicken in Wien, Die Weltmeister," Fall 2008. Art Institute of Chicago, "Photography on Display: Modern Treasures," May 9–September 13, 2009. New York, Seaport Museum New York, "Alfred Stieglitz: New York," September 14, 2010-January 10, 2011. Art Institute of Chicago, "When Collecting Was New: Photographs from the Robert A. Taub Collection," December 15, 2012–May 12, 2013. (Michal Raz-Russo) Art Institute of Chicago, "Alfred Stieglitz and the 19th Century," October 31, 2015-March 27, 2016. (Elizabeth Siegel)

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Alfred Stieglitz / American, 1864–1946
    Date
    1907, printed 1915
    Medium
    Photogravure
    Dimensions
    Image: 31.9 × 25.8 cm (12 9/16 × 10 3/16 in.); Paper: 39.7 × 28 cm (15 11/16 × 11 1/16 in.); Mount: 42.7 × 30.7 cm (16 13/16 × 12 1/8 in.)
    Type
    Photograph
    Classification
    photogravure
    Place
    United States
    Department
    Photography and Media
    Credit line
    Alfred Stieglitz Collection
    Accession no.
    1949.847

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