Barn, Lake George
1936
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image/paper/first mount: 11.8 × 9.2 cm (4 11/16 × 3 5/8 in.); Second mount: 35.2 × 27.7 cm (13 7/8 × 10 15/16 in.)
Classification
gelatin silver (developing-out-paper) pr
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
66406
Art Historical Context
Alfred Stieglitz’s “Barn, Lake George” captures a quiet rural structure near the photographer’s summer home in upstate New York. Created in 1936, the image reflects Stieglitz’s mature period, when he turned his lens toward the barns, trees, and skies surrounding Lake George. These late works distill his lifelong fascination with light, form, and the American landscape into spare, carefully composed views that feel both intimate and monumental. The photograph is a gelatin silver print, the most common developing-out process of its time. Its modest image size—just under five by four inches—moun...
About the Artist
Alfred Stieglitz · 1864–1946
Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) was a pioneering American photographer, art dealer, publisher, and advocate for the Modernist movement who was instrumental over his 50-year career in making photography an accepted art form. Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, to German Jewish immigrant parents, Stieglitz spent his formative years studying mechanical engineering in Berlin, where he discovered photography in ...