From My Window at the Shelton, North

Artist:: Alfred Stieglitz (American, Hoboken, New Jersey 1864–1946 New York)

Date:: 1931

Medium:: Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:: 24.2 x 19.2 cm (9 1/2 x 7 9/16 in.)

Classification:: Photographs

Credit Line:: Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987

Accession Number:: 1987.1100.11

Not on view

Stieglitz recorded the construction of the skyscrapers of midtown Manhattan from the windows of his gallery and of his nearby apartment in the Shelton Towers. His photographs seem not to celebrate the astonishing growth of new buildings but rather almost geological permanence and stability: "Crammed on the narrow island the million-windowed buildings will jut glittering, pyramid on pyramid...," as John Dos Passos wrote.

Inscription: Inscribed in pencil on mount, verso LL: "1C";

Georgia O'Keeffe; [Edwynn Houk to Waddell, April 7, 1984]; John C. Waddell

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The New Vision: Photography between the World Wars. The Ford Motor Company Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art," September 23, 1989–December 31, 1989.

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Los Angeles County Museum of Art. "The New Vision: Photography between the World Wars. The Ford Motor Company Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art," May 10, 1990–July 15, 1990.

High Museum of Art. "The New Vision: Photography between the World Wars. The Ford Motor Company Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art," February 5, 1991–April 28, 1991.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. "The New Vision: Photography between the World Wars. The Ford Motor Company Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art," June 8, 1991–August 4, 1991.

IVAM, Centre Julio Gonzalez, Valencia. "The New Vision, IVAM, Centre Julio Gonzalez, Valencia," January 20, 1995–March 26, 1995.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand," November 8, 2010–April 10, 2011.

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Essays
Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946) and American Photography

Timelines
The United States and Canada, 1900 A.D.–present

The New Vision: Photography between the World Wars. The Ford Motor Company Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
"Photography Between the Wars: Selections from the Ford Motor Company Collection": The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 45, no. 4 (Spring, 1988)
Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand: Masterworks from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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North and Central America (92,417)