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The Swimming Lesson

Artist Alfred Stieglitz (American, 1864 - 1946)
Date1906
MediumPhotogravure
DimensionsImage: 5 13/16 × 9 1/16 inches (14.76 × 23.02 cm)
Sheet: 7 13/16 × 11 inches (19.84 × 27.94 cm)
Mount: 8 1/4 × 11 13/16 inches (20.96 × 30 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.2218
Signednone
Inscribednone
MarkingsOn mount recto, lower right corner, in pencil: "35"
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionGravure from "Camera Work", Oct. 1911. Image of a woman and child in the water.Exhibition History

Rotation 18. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, December 17, 2014 – May 3, 2015, no cat.

Provenance
Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1987; 
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
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