Gable and Apples

1922
Not on view
When Stieglitz sent this print to Georgia O'Keeffe at Christmas in 1939, he did not need to remind her of the moment of its making. The couple, not yet married, were together at the farm at Lake George, New York. The upward peak of the gable and the tantalizingly incumbent apples joined the symbolic national fruit with Stieglitz's sexuality and his search for an American art. Upon seeing the photograph, the poet Hart Crane exclaimed to Stieglitz, "That is it, you have captured life."

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Gable and Apples
  • Artist: Alfred Stieglitz (American, Hoboken, New Jersey 1864–1946 New York)
  • Date: 1922
  • Medium: Gelatin silver print
  • Dimensions: 11.4 x 9.0 cm (4 1/2 x 3 9/16 in.)
  • Classification: Photographs
  • Credit Line: Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987
  • Object Number: 1987.1100.103
  • Curatorial Department: Photographs

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