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Lifetime Exhibitions Index

# Alfred Stieglitz Lifetime Exhibition: 1937, New York

An American Place, “Beginnings and Landmarks: ‘291’ 1905–1917,” 27 October–27 December

**Works Exhibited**

16 Sun Rays, 1889 (later print)17 Five Points, New York, 1893 (later print)18 Hand of Man, 1902 (photogravure)19 The Steerage, 1907 (photogravure)

**Notes**

Nos. 16–18 are depicted in installation photographs at YCAL

**Select Reviews**

Elizabeth McCausland, “Retrospective Show of Modernist Pioneers,” *The Springfield Sunday Union and Republican* (7 November 1937), section E, 6

Ralph Flint, “What Is ‘291’?” *Christian Science Monitor Weekly Magazine* (17 November 1937), 5

Robert M. Coates, “The Art Galleries: Picassos Everywhere—Stieglitziana,” *The New Yorker* 13:4 (20 November 1937), 89–90

                    -    - Alfred Stieglitz
- Sun Rays—Paula, Berlin
- 1889, printed 1916
- platinum print
- Key Set Number 60
 
                    -    - Alfred Stieglitz
- Five Points, New York
- probably 1893, printed 1929/1932
- gelatin silver print
- Key Set Number 81
 
                    -    - Alfred Stieglitz (editor/publisher) after Various Artists
- Alfred Stieglitz
- The Hand of Man
- 1902, printed 1903
- photogravure
- Key Set Number 277
 
                    -    - Alfred Stieglitz (editor/publisher) after Various Artists
- Alfred Stieglitz
- The Steerage
- 1907, printed 1911
- photogravure
- Key Set Number 310
 

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