Barn & Snow
1923
Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 19.4 x 24.4 cm (7 5/8 x 9 5/8 in.) mount: 56.5 x 46.4 cm (22 1/4 x 18 1/4 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Accession Number
1949.3.630
Art Historical Context
Alfred Stieglitz's *Barn & Snow* (1923) is a striking gelatin silver print that captures the stark beauty of a rural American landscape blanketed in winter. Measuring 19.4 x 24.4 cm on a larger 56.5 x 46.4 mount, this photograph Stieglitz's mastery of black-and-white photography during his later years. As a gelatin silver print—a medium prized for its rich tonal range and fine detail—this work showcases the technical precision that elevated photography to fine art status in the early 20th century. Stieglitz, a pioneering figure in American modernism, founded the influential Gallery 291 in New...
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 ...