Alfred Stieglitz and Clarence H. White
Nude
1906-1907
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Platinum print, wax-coated, Mount: 337 × 230 mm. (13 1/4 × 9 1/16 in.)
Sheet: 240 × 188 mm. (9 7/16 × 7 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase with exchange funds from the Edward Joseph Gallagher III Memorial Collection; and partial gift of George H. Dalsheimer, Baltimore
Object Number
1988.573
According to Anne McCauley, the nude is "Miss Thompson," who modeled periodically for Stieglitz and White. The print shown at upper left is Hokusai's color woodcut "The Great Wave." Princeton University Art Museum has the glass-plate negative for this composition.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by partial gift/partial purchase, 1988; George Dalsheimer, 1979; purchased from Graphics International, Ltd., Washington, D.C.; purchased from Hirschl and Adler Galleries, NY, 1978; Paul B. Haviland
Looking through the Lens: Photography 1900-1960
Inscribed: On mount, at lower left, in graphite: ""Nude [underlined]" / Negative + print made / by Clarence H White + / Alfred Stieglitz / Winter of 1907-1908 [underlined] / "291" Alfred Stieglitz"
