Alfred Stieglitz
Excavating -- New York

ArtistAmerican, 1864–1946
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Excavating -- New York
  • from Camera Work, Number 36
Datepublished October 1911
PlaceNew York, New York, United States
MediumPhotogravure
DimensionsImage: 5 × 6 1/4 in. (12.7 × 15.9 cm)
Sheet: 11 1/16 × 7 15/16 in. (28.1 × 20.2 cm)
Credit LineThe Target Collection of American Photography, museum purchase funded by Target Stores
Object number78.88.8
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance[The Cronin Gallery, Houston]; purchased by MFAH, 1978.
Exhibition HistoryLoaned to Manes Center of the Union of Czechoslovak Creative Artists, Progue, c/o U.S.I.A., Washington, D.C. for "The 150th Anniversary of the Invention of Photography: Prague 1989," from Aug. 1 to Sep. 30, 1989 (LN:89.10).

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