Alfred Stieglitz at An American Place, New York City

Print Notes

This portrait of Alfred Stieglitz was taken at his “An American Place” gallery which was a mecca for aspiring artists, photographers, and collectors. It operated from 1929 until its close in 1950. Ansel Adams had a landmark exhibition of his photographs there in 1936, and it was in the gallery that the present photograph was taken.

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Description

Ansel Adams
1902-1984
1935 | Printed 1973-77
Gelatin silver print signed in pencil front of mount, credited, titled and dated in photographer's Carmel credit stamp [BMFA stamp 11].
Image Size: 11 1/8 x 7 1/2 inches
Framed Size: 22 x 17 1/2 inches
Location: AAP ~ Unique ID 542

Provenance

Acquired through Weston Gallery at Christie's at the Adams & Company: Photographs of the American West including Property from the Peter Fetterman Collection Auction (LOT 14).

Literature

Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1983, p. 6; Ansel Adams and Mary Street Alinder, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography, New York Graphic Society; Little, Brown and Company, New York; Boston, 1985, p. 127; Andrea G. Stillman, Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs, Little, Brown and Company, New York, 2007, p. 249; Andrea G. Stillman, Looking at Ansel Adams: The Photographs and the Man, Little, Brown and Company, New York, 2012, p. 139.