House and Grape Leaves
1934
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 24 × 19.3 cm (9 7/16 × 7 5/8 in.) mount: 50.9 × 38.9 cm (20 1/16 × 15 5/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Accession Number
1949.3.777
Art Historical Context
Alfred Stieglitz's *House and Grape Leaves*1934) captures an intimate moment from the artist's beloved summer home at Lake George, New York where he spent his later years photographing the interplay of everyday architecture and nature. By this time, Stieglitz, a pioneering force in American photography, had shifted from his earlier Pictorialist soft-focus style to "straight photography," emphasizing sharp detail and unmanipulated reality to elevate the medium as fine art. This gelatin silver print, trimmed precisely to the image edges (24 × 19.3 cm), exemplifies his commitment to purity and em...
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 ...