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The Steerage
Alfred Stieglitz1907
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
With his camera, Stieglitz transformed a scene of impoverished immigrants returning to Europe into a study in shape and form; the image sparked his evolution from a pictorialist into a modernist. Reflecting on his career in 1942, Stieglitz proclaimed this image<em>,</em> taken in 1907, as an achievement of modern art that anticipated Cubism.
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- Title: The Steerage
- Creator: Alfred Stieglitz (American, 1864-1946)
- Date Created: 1907
- Physical Dimensions: Image: 32 x 25.7 cm (12 5/8 x 10 1/8 in.); Image with black margin: 33.2 x 26.5 cm (13 1/16 x 10 7/16 in.); Paper: 40 x 27.9 cm (15 3/4 x 11 in.); Mounted: 50.8 x 38 cm (20 x 14 15/16 in.)
- Provenance: Georgia O'Keeffe [1887-1986], Delacroix Davis, Jr., Ledel Gallery, New York, NY, Thomas A. and Diann G. Mann, Palm Beach Gardens, FL, the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Photograph
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.22
- Medium: photogravure
- Inscriptions: Written in pencil on recto of mount in lower left: “The Steerage-1907/original Photogravure/Alfred Stieglitz (signed)”
- Fun Fact: This print is Alfred Stieglitz’s own, lifelong copy of <em>The Steerage</em>, one of his most important works.
- Department: Photography
- Culture: America, 20th century
- Credit Line: Gift of Diann G. Mann and Thomas A. Mann
- Collection: PH - American 1900-1950
- Accession Number: 2019.22
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