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Georgia O'Keeffe- Hand and Wheel
1933
Alfred Stieglitz
Alfred Stieglitz (American, 1864–1946)
Photography
Georgia O'Keeffe- Hand and Wheel, 1933. Alfred Stieglitz (American, 1864–1946). Gelatin silver print; image: 24.2 x 19.2 cm (9 1/2 x 7 9/16 in.); matted: 55.9 x 45.7 cm (22 x 18 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Cary Ross, Knoxville, Tennessee 1935.99 Georgia O’Keeffe lovingly caresses the spare tire of her Ford V-8 convertible coupe. The image was made during her reunion with her husband—and much beloved car—after an extended convalescence following a nervous breakdown. O’Keeffe had paid for the car herself; for her it was not just a glossy object of consumer desire but symbolized independence and freedom. One of the first photographs to enter the museum’s collection was Alfred Stieglitz’s close-up of the hand of his wife, the painter Georgia O’Keeffe.
- Maker/Artist
- Stieglitz, Alfred
- Classification
- Photograph
- Formatted Medium
- gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- Image: 24.2 x 19.2 cm (9 1/2 x 7 9/16 in.); Matted: 55.9 x 45.7 cm (22 x 18 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Written in pencil on recto: "Georgia O'Keeffe's Hand / & Wheel - 1933 / Alfred Stieglitz [signed]"
- Departments
- Photography
- Accession Number
- 1935.99
- Credit Line
- Gift of Cary Ross, Knoxville, Tennessee
- Exhibitions
- Masters of the Camera: Stieglitz, Steichen, and Their Successors, The Modern Spirit: American Painting 1908-35, The Precisionist Aesthetic in American Art, Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art, From Riches to Rags: American Photography in the Depression, <em>Exhibition of Photographs</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (December 12, 1934-January 13, 1935)., <em>Masters of the Camera: Stieglitz, Steichen, and Their Successors. </em>The American Federation of Arts, New York, NY (1976-1977). cat. p. 19, repr. p. 67., <em>The Modern Spirit: American Painting 1908-35.</em> The Arts Council of Great Britain, London (1977)., <em>The Automobile and Culture</em>.The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (July 21, 1984-January 6, 1985; The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (June 9, 1985-September 9, 1985)., <em>Two Lives: Georgia O'Keeffe & Alfred Stieglitz. </em>The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC (December 12, 1992-April 4, 1993); IBM Gallery of Science and Arts, New York, NY (April 27-June 26, 1993); The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN (July 17-September 12, 1993); The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (October 2-December 5, 1993). cat p. 14, repr. p. 116.
- Rights Statement
- Copyrighted
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