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ALFRED STIEGLITZ (American, 1864-1946) POPLARS, LAKE GEORGE vintage gelatin silver print mounted on

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ALFRED STIEGLITZ (American, 1864-1946) POPLARS, LAKE GEORGE vintage gelatin silver print mounted on
ALFRED STIEGLITZ (American, 1864-1946) POPLARS, LAKE GEORGE vintage gelatin silver print mounted on board 97/16 x 75/8 in. (24 x 19.4 cm) mount: 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm) 1933 ESTIMATE: $20,000-30,000 PROVENANCE Dorothy Norman, NEW YORK Edwynn Houk Gallery, NEW YORK EXHIBITED ZURICH, Galerie zur Stockeregg, TREES, July-August 1995 (illustrated on exhibition announcement) LITERATURE Dorothy Norman, ALfRED STIEGLITZ: AN AMERICAN SEER, New York, 1960, pl. 26 (variant of these trees illustrated) Stieglitz often used trees as metaphors. "I have lived with trees, at Lake George, where I go in the summer. For forty years I have watched some trees there and in watching them I have learned about myself. One dying oak tree in especial I have watched. Last year more limbs were torn off by the winds. Last summer there were three leaves on the dying oak tree and those leaves were already marked by the hand of death. I wonder sometimes if I am not like the dying oak tree with the three leaves, and if there will be any leaves at all next year." (Herbert J. Seligman, ALFRED STIEGLITZ TALKING, New Haven, 1966, p.21). In the early1930s he frequently photographed poplar trees on his property at Lake George, New York, and this print was a gift to his young friend, Dorothy Norman. Only two other prints of this image are known to exist, one in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. and the other at the Baltimore Museum of Art