Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946)
Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946)

Spring Showers, 1900-01

Details
Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946)
Spring Showers, 1900-01
large-format photogravure on Japan vellum
image: 12 1/8 x 5 in. (30.8 x 12.7 cm.)
sheet: 18 5/8 x 12 ¾ in. (47.3 x 32.4 cm.)
Provenance
The artist;
Dorothy Norman (1905-1997);
Simone Zarchin, Norman's personal assistant;
Eva Feldman, inherited from the above, 1952;
Sotheby's, New York, April 8, 2008, lot 154;
with Lee Gallery, Winchester, Massachusetts;
Katrina Doerner Photographs, Brooklyn, New York, 2011.
Literature
William Innes Homer, Alfred Stieglitz and the Photo-Secession, 1902, Little, Brown and Company, New York, cover and n.p.
Alfred Stieglitz, Camera Work, No. 36, 1911, pl. XVI.
Dorothy Norman, Alfred Stieglitz: An American Seer, Random House/Aperture, New York, 1960, p. IX.
Sarah Greenough & Juan Hamilton, Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs & Writings, Bulfinch Press/National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1999, pl. 13.
Sarah Greenough, Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and his New York Galleries, Bulfinch Press/National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2000, fig. 13.
Therese Mulligan, ed., The Photography of Alfred Stieglitz: Georgia O'Keeffe's Enduring Legacy, George Eastman House, Rochester, 2000, no. 68.
Sarah Greenough, Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set, Volume One 1886-1922, Abrams/National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2002, p. 160, cat. no. 269.

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