The Dying Chestnut Tree
1927
Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 18 × 23.5 cm (7 1/16 × 9 1/4 in.) mount: 51 × 38.3 cm (20 1/16 × 15 1/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Accession Number
1949.3.675
Art Historical Context
In the serene yet evocative *The Dying Chestnut Tree* (1927), Alfredieglitz captures the drama of nature's decline through a gelatin silver print, a medium prized for its rich tonal range and sharp detail. Measuring 18 × 23.5 cm on a generous 51 × 38.3 cm mount, this photograph viewers into the textured bark and skeletal branches of its subject, rendered with Stieglitz's signature precision. Housed in the National Gallery of Art's Stieglitz Collection, it exemplifies his late-career mastery. Stieglitz, often hailed as the father of modern photography in America, championed the medium as fine ...
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 ...