The Dying Chestnut Tree

The Dying Chestnut Tree

Photograph

Alfred Stieglitz

Maker
American, 1864–1946

The Dying Chestnut Tree

1927
Gelatin silver print
Image: 9 1/8 × 5 15/16 in. (23.1 × 15.1 cm)
Mount: 13 9/16 × 10 5/8 in. (34.5 × 27 cm)
Matted: 22 × 18 × 3/16 in. (55.9 × 45.7 × 0.4 cm)
Gift of Dorothy Norman
Inscriptions verso-(in pencil) "Dead Tree - Lake George 1934 [sic] Also called
'Life and Death' by Stieglitz"
verso-(original backing, in ink) "For Mrs. Louis Steichen from
Alfred Stieglitz (underlined) who is eternally in debt to her & her
husband An American Place Jan.24 - 1938" (in pencil) "Original by
Alfred Stieglitz inscribed to Dorothy Norman's mother (sic) by A.S.
in his handwriting" "For Philadelphia Museum Collection Dorothy
Norman (lined out)" "given by Mrs. Steichen to Dorothy Norman"...
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