Poplar, Lake George
1932
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gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 24 × 19 cm (9 7/16 × 7 1/2 in.) mount: 25.5 × 20.5 cm (10 1/16 × 8 1/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Normandie Foundation
Accession Number
2018.179.2
Art Historical Context
Alfred Stieglitz *Poplar, Lake George (1932) captures the stark elegance of a lone poplar tree against the serene landscape of Lake, New York, a place the pioneering photographer called home during his later summers. As a founder of the Photo-Sec movement in the early 1900s, Stieglitz championed photography as a fine art, moving beyond pictorialism to embrace straight photography that revealed nature's raw forms. This gelatin silver print, measuring nearly 10 by 8 inches on mount, exemplifies his late-career focus on intimate, elemental subjects, often shared with his wife, artist Georgia O'Ke...
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 ...