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
Hirschl and Adler Galleries, NY, "The Eye of Stieglitz," 7 October - 2 November 1978, no. 75 (illus).
Jan Howard, BMA, "The Collector's Eye: Photographs from the Museum's Dalsheimer Collection, " 17 September - 19 November, 1989.
Jan Howard, BMA, "A Century of American Photography: A Decade of BMA Acquisitions," 22 October 1997 - 11 January 1998.
Rena Hoisington, BMA, "Looking through the Lens: Photography 1900-1960," 16 March - 8 June 2008.
Jan Howard, BMA, "The Collector's Eye: Photographs from the Museum's Dalsheimer Collection, " 17 September - 19 November, 1989.
Jan Howard, BMA, "A Century of American Photography: A Decade of BMA Acquisitions," 22 October 1997 - 11 January 1998.
Rena Hoisington, BMA, "Looking through the Lens: Photography 1900-1960," 16 March - 8 June 2008.
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"
