Music—A Sequence of Ten Cloud Photographs, No. II

1922

Alfred Stieglitz

Associated Names
Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

The image shows a view of a sky filled with thick, swirling clouds. The horizon includes a tree line, a gently sloping hill, and the clouds are captured with a soft focus, displaying gradations of grey. The color palette is monochromatic with various shades of grey and black. The dark hill emerges below the clouds in the distance, emphasizing the sky above.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 24.1 x 19.5 cm (9 1/2 x 7 11/16 in.)
    sheet: 25.2 x 20.2 cm (9 15/16 x 7 15/16 in.)
    mount: 56.3 x 45.3 cm (22 3/16 x 17 13/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1949.3.830

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    27C

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    794

The image shows a man leaning his head on his hand, positioned with his face resting on his left hand. He has a mustache, thin-framed eyeglasses, and thick, greying hair that curls slightly at the edges. He is dressed in a formal jacket, a white shirt, and a black bow tie. The background is a soft, dark blur.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1992

  • Stieglitz in the Darkroom, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, October 4, 1992–February 14, 1993

2010

  • Alfred Stieglitz: The Lake George Years, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2010

Bibliography

2002

  • Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 794.

2010

  • Annear, Judy, ed. Alfred Stieglitz: The Lake George Years. Exh. cat. Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2010.

Inscriptions

by later hands, on window mat, lower right verso, in graphite: 27C LIG; on mount, lower left verso: 27C

Wikidata ID

Q64035852

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Remarks

The titles of this photograph and the following Key Set numbers are based on those used for Stieglitz’s 1923 exhibition at the Anderson Galleries: 792, 793, 795, 796, 797, 798, 799, 800, 801, and 802.

They are numbered according to Stieglitz’s inscriptions on the Gallery’s prints and those included as part of the 1924 gift to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. This series was probably made between late August and October 1922.

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