Boston
Alfred Stieglitz: Known and Unknown
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
465 Huntington Avenue
October 6, 2002–January 5, 2003
National Gallery of Art West Building
Sixth Street and Constitution Avenue, NW
June 2–September 2, 2002
Curated by Sarah Greenough
For longtime National Gallery curator Sarah Greenough, this is the big one: a 100-print exhibition of Alfred Stieglitz’s career, drawn from the museum’s collection of more than 1,600—the so-called key set assembled by Georgia O’Keeffe and donated by her and the Stieglitz estate. Greenough’s career has focused on the impressario of modernist photography, and in showing Stieglitz’s iconic images alongside lesser-known pictures, this survey promises to be insightful. Best of all, the show is accompanied by a catalogue reproducing the entire collection, with scholarly entries for each image and—for the first time, according to Greenough—authoritative titles and dates.