The Alfred Stieglitz Collection
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  • Recto of print with original mount
  • Verso of original mount
  • Detail of artist’s signature

Alfred Stieglitz (American, 1864–1946)

The Street, Fifth Avenue, 1900/01

Photogravure, printed 1903/1904; 30.8 x 23.4 cm (image); 40.4 x 28.1 cm (paper); 43.5 x 30.8 cm (mount)
Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949.839

 

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