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Ansel Adams
Alfred Stieglitz at His Desk, An American Place, 1944
Ansel Adams
Alfred Stieglitz at His Desk, An American Place, 1944
Gelatin silver print, 7 x 9 inches
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Museum Purchase
2014.3.1

Photographer: Ansel Adams
Depicted: An American Place
Depicted: Alfred Stieglitz
Interior view of office at American Place Gallery, Alfred Stieglitz is seen in profile and partial shadow wearing a dark suit and tie and seated at his desk writing (which faces the window); books and papers are in stacks and piles, there is a blossoming branch in a pitcher of water placed on the center of desk, behind Stieglitz's head, adjacent to the window on the viewer right of the image, are two large framed art works (watercolors?) leaning on a ledge against the wall.
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Signature in pencil on the mount below the photograph. On the reverse side of the mount is the photographer's stamp in black ink.

Provenance

Sweeney Archive: Fine Art Photography James Sweeney New York
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6550