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Alfred stieglitz camera work11/22/2023 ![]() ![]() However, he was ambivalent about what to do with his ever-expanding collection of work by other artists-a disordered assemblage gathered over the decades, including gifts and purchases from artists he showed at his galleries as well as works bought from other exhibitions, such as the Armory Show of 1913. He donated twenty-seven of his own prints to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in 1924, followed by twenty-two photographs to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1928, both gifts representing the first photographs to be accepted into either museum’s collection. Stieglitz’s vast collection had already begun to fragment during his own lifetime. The variety of his interests was on full display in his publications and exhibitions, where photography could be found alongside historical precursors and modern contemporaries in other media. He was unmatched both in his advocacy of modern European painters and sculptors-including Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and Auguste Rodin-and in his support of emerging contemporary American artists such as Charles Demuth, Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, and Georgia O’Keeffe. Through his own dedicated photographic work over the course of a half century, the journals he edited and published (such as Camera Notes and Camera Work), and the groundbreaking exhibitions he organized at his New York galleries (including 291, the Intimate Gallery, and An American Place), Stieglitz tirelessly promoted photography as a fine art, gathering around him first Pictorialist and then modernist photographers. It added enormously to the museum’s holdings of modern American art and utterly transformed the collection of photographs.Ĭonsidered as a whole, the Stieglitz Collection reflects the enormous diversity of Alfred Stieglitz’s activities. On December 9, 1949, the Art Institute of Chicago’s director, Daniel Catton Rich, wrote to his friend Georgia O’Keeffe, the well-known painter and widow of Alfred Stieglitz: “I am happy to inform you that the Trustees of the Art Institute at their recent meeting in November, accepted with great appreciation your splendid gift of paintings, sculpture, drawings, etchings, prints and photographs, to the Alfred Stieglitz Collection.” Including later additions by O’Keeffe, the gift would ultimately total nearly four hundred works, including 244 photographs, 159 by Stieglitz himself. The Alfred Stieglitz Collection and the Art Institute of Chicago ![]()
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