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“little children”: RSS, May 27, 1916, SFC.
“swinging crazily along”: RS to PS, August 8, 1920, CCP.
“self-aggrandizing”: Louis S. Warren, Buffalo Bill’s America, p. 238.
“American blood”: RSS to PS, Monday [April 30, 1929], CCP.
“as boy soldier”: New York Times, December 25, 1902.
“half-drunk”: RS to PS, June 27, 1920, CCP.
“to see more deeply”: RS to PS, July 7, 1920, CCP.
“How tenderly / The breeze”: RS to PS, May 3, 1920, CCP.
“mental indigestion”: RS to PS, c. May 28, 1920, CCP.
“camera magic”: RS to PS, June 15, 1920, CCP.
“consummated /First in pregnancy”: RS to PS, June 11, 1920, CCP.
CHAPTER 7: A FINE COMPANIONSHIP
“return to normalcy”: Warren G. Harding, “Back to Normal: Address Before Home Market Club,” Boston, May 14, 1920.
“With the quiet of the morning”: AS to AD, August 28, 1920, ASA/YCAL.
“a maelstrom”: Charles Merz, “The Temper of the Country,” The New Republic, November 10, 1920, pp. 259–60.
“the first generation”: Waldo Frank, Our America, pp. 9, 184, 10. Frank’s book went through three printings in six months.
“this business of being oneself”: RS to PS, July 8, 1920, CCP.
“hell-raising”: RS to PS, June 11, 1920, CCP.
“It seems as if”: RS to PS, July 11, 1920, CCP.
“No one can help”: RS to PS, August 20, 1920, CCP.
“absorbing too much”: RS to PS, June 8, 1920, CCP.
“Sometimes/You are so much”: RS to PS, July 5, 1920, CCP.
“justif[ying] the other self”: RS to PS, July 11, 1920, CCP.
“dying—spiritually”: RS to PS, August 5, 1920, CCP.
“The circle is complete”: RS to PS, August 28, 1920, CCP.
“filled with F.F.P’s”: RS to PS, September 8, 1920, CCP.
“to the consternation”: RS to PS, September 8, 1920, CCP.
“I owe you so much”: RS to PS, Tuesday [December 1920], CCP.
“When we return”: AS to PS, September 21, 1920, CCP.
“I am getting to hate ‘nearlys’ ”: AS to Herbert Seligmann, September 15, 1920, ASA/YCAL. See also AS to GOK, January 17, 1918, MFO, p. 237, on virility and art.
“I have quite definitely come”: Sherwood Anderson, “Alfred Stieglitz,” The New Republic, October 25, 1922, p. 215.
“The girl—your work”: AS to PS, October 22, 1920, CCP.
“corkers”: AS to PS, October 27, 1920, CCP.
“Master of the situation”: AS to PS, November 2, 1920, CCP.
“Movement is everywhere”: PS to AS, November 16, 1920, ASA/YCAL.
“I have been thinking about”: RS to PS, Sunday evening [December 1920], CCP.
“Strength seems to flow”: RS to PS, Tuesday [December 1920], CCP.
“There is such a thing as loyalty”: Henry McBride, “Photographs by Stieglitz,” New York Herald, February 13, 1921; reprinted in McBride, The Flow of Art, p. 160.
“Why should I”: AS, quoted in “Stieglitz, the Pioneer Who Has Developed Photography as an Art,” New York Evening Post, February 12, 1921.
“These are moments consciously recorded”: AS, quoted in David Lloyd, “Studio and Gallery,” New York Sun, February 19, 1921.
“spiritually significant”: GOK, “To MSS. and Its 33 Subscribers and Others Who Read and Don’t Subscribe,” MSS. 4 (December 1922); reprinted in Lynes, O’Keeffe, Stieglitz, and the Critics, p. 183.
“the great affirmers of life”: Paul Rosenfeld, “Stieglitz,” The Dial 70 (April 1921): 397, 398.
“It was his manly sense”: Lewis Mumford, “The Metropolitan Milieu,” in Frank et al., eds., America & Alfred Stieglitz, p. 57.
“love of the world”: Herbert Seligmann, “A Photographer Challenges,” The Nation, February 16, 1921, p. 268.
“Stieglitz had accepted the machine”: PS, “Alfred Stieglitz and a Machine,” unpaginated, ASA/YCAL.
“O’Keeffe is what they probably will be calling”: Henry McBride, “Art News and Reviews,” New York Herald, February 4, 1923; quoted in Lynes, O’Keeffe, Stieglitz, and the Critics, p. 187.
“your beautiful loving”: RS to PS, Tuesday [c. March 22, 1921], CCP.
“I raged when you wrote”: ibid.
“When you need other folks”: PS to AS, August 3, 1921, ASA/YCAL.
“more interesting than the feature”: ibid. Robert Allerton Parker called the film a “glorious adventure,” one that “emphasizes anew the art of the camera”; see “The Art of the Camera,” Arts and Decoration, October 1921, p. 369.
groundbreaking: Jan-Chrisopher Horak calls Manhatta the first avant-garde film made in the United States; see “Modernist Perspectives and Romantic Impulses,” in Paul Strand, ed. Stange, p. 55.
“It…lives very well”: PS to AS, August 3, 1921, ASA/YCAL.
“You and Beck both”: AS to PS, September 2, 1921, CCP.
“I dare not express the hope”: AS to PS, September 3, 1921, CCP.
“I am heir”: PS to AS, September 5, 1921, ASA/YCAL.
“I showed her your letter”: PS to AS, September 5, 1921, ASA/YCAL.
“You…seem to be”: RS to PS, Wed. 4:30 [September 1921], CCP.
“a hot red star”: RS to PS, Tuesday eve. [September 1921], CCP.
“You seemed to want”: RS to PS, Wednesday [September 1921], CCP.
“I have not been unmindful”: RS to AS, Wed. [c. October 1921], ASA/YCAL.
“I had a very fine note”: AS to PS, October 4, 1921, CCP.
“I do hope that Strand”: AS to Herbert Seligmann, August 20, 1921, ASA/YCAL.
“all dressed up”: Herbert Seligmann to AS, September 28, 1921, YCAL.
“more alive”: PS to AS, August 3, 1921, ASA/YCAL.
“The deeper significance”: PS, “Photography and the New God,” Broom 3 (November 1922): 257–58.
CHAPTER 8: TWENTIETH-CENTURY SEEING
“20th century seeing”: PS to AS, July 2, 1922, ASA/YCAL.
“MSS. is published”: MSS. 1 (February 1922): unpaginated.
“something really alive”: RSS to AS, February 15, 1922, ASA/YCAL.
“He was warm with us”: Olga (Baasch) Vrana interview with the author, April 4, 2012.
“We had wanted to live openly”: Frank, Memoirs of Waldo Frank, p. 206.
“Her great painful and ecstatic climaxes”: Paul Rosenfeld, “American Painting: Women, One,” The Dial 71 (December 1921): 666–70.
“The pictures of O’Keeffe”: Marsden Hartley, “Some Women Artists,” in Adventures in the Arts, p. 116.
“They were only writing”: GOK to Mitchell Kennerley, fall 1922, Cowart and Hamilton, p. 170.
“I am getting to something”: GOK to AS, May 6, 1922, MFO, p. 327.
“I am on my back”: GOK to AS, May 16, 1922, MFO, pp. 333–34.
“It was all so humorous”: AS to GOK, May 5, 1922, MFO, p. 325.
“serious, critical, analytical”: RSS to AS, July 10, 1922, ASA/YCAL.
“astonishing”: AS to PS, July 15, 1922, CCP.
“Good old Stieglitz”: RSS to AS, July 14, 1922, ASA/YCAL.
“I miss seeing”: RSS to AS, July 10, 1922, ASA/YCAL.
“You are a thoroughly live wire”: AS to RSS, July 13, 1922, ASA/YCAL.
“a great kid”: PS to AS, August 14, 1922, CCP.
“more than well pleased”: AS to RSS, May 1922 [sic], ASA/YCAL.
“You would have been a great asset”: AS to RSS, August 23, 1922, ASA/YCAL.
“I have come very close”: AS to PS, August 16, 1922, C
CP.
“Wait until Paul”: AS to RSS, July 15, 1922, ASA/YCAL.
“He’ll be shouting”: AS to RSS, August 7, 1922, ASA/YCAL.
“You poor lonely”: AS to RSS, August 28, 1922, ASA/YCAL.
“everything but ideas”: RSS to PS, Saturday morning [September 9, 1922], CCP.
“We must accomplish more”: RSS to PS, September 9, 1922, CCP.
“quiet challenge” to “well-ordered machines”: “Recent Pictorial Photography at the Camera Club Exhibition,” New York Times, September 10, 1922.
“We could try some nudes”: RSS to PS, Friday, September 16, 1922 [?], CCP.
“A lovely relationship”: RSS to PS, Thursday, September 29, 1922, CCP.
“another grandie swim”: RSS to PS, Saturday night, September 20, 1922, CCP.
“to prove to Paul”: AS to Nancy Newhall, quoted in Whelan, Alfred Stieglitz, p. 433.
“Some of them—a nude of me”: RSS to PS, Saturday night [September 1923?], CCP.
“because it can be made unpleasant”: RSS to PS, Friday a.m. [October 6,] 1922, CCP.
“like one possessed”: AS to Paul Rosenfeld, October 4, 1922, ASA/YCAL.
“in that he has bewildered”: GOK, “To MSS. and its 33 subscribers and others who read and don’t subscribe!,” letter to the editor, MSS. no. 4 (December 1922): 17.
“irritation”: RSS to PS, Wednesday night, October 5, 1922, CCP.
“important for all of us”: AS to PS, October 5, 1922, CCP.
“She is one of those persons”: Paul Rosenfeld, “The Paintings of Georgia O’Keeffe: The Work of the Young American Artist Whose Canvases Are to Be Exhibited in Bulk for the First Time This Winter,” Vanity Fair, October 1922, p. 114.
“I am sorry for Georgia’s sake”: Rosenfeld to AS, September 23, 1922, ASA/YCAL.
“one of those dismal-colored paintings”: GOK, Georgia O’Keeffe, unpaginated.
“I really can’t do it”: RSS to PS, October 12, 1922, CCP.
“a great gal to be with”: RSS to AS, September 20, 1922, ASA/YCAL.
“that of a record”: PS, “Photography and the New God,” Broom 3, no. 4 (November 1922): 256.
“howling”: AS to RSS, October 28, 1922, ASA/YCAL.
“able to complete the circle”: AS to PS, October 28, 1922, CCP.
“How you’ll like them”: AS to RSS, November 1, 1922, ASA/YCAL.
“a new order of beings”: AS to RSS, November 3, 1922, ASA/YCAL.
“It does seem as if”: AS to RSS, October 24, 1922, ASA/YCAL.
“Owner of Buffalo Bill’s”: RSSJ, “My life, like all Gaul…,” unpublished ms, ASA/YCAL, unpaginated.
“not quite clear”: AS to RSS, November 3, 1922, ASA/YCAL.
“It is difficult for me”: RSS to AS, November 6, 1922, ASA/YCAL.
“Thanks for the Giving”: AS to RSS, November 29, 1922, ASA/YCAL.
“I watched the sky”: RSSJ, “My life, like all Gaul…,” unpaginated.
“May the kindly stars”: AS to RSS, December 29, 1922, ASA/YCAL.
CHAPTER 9: KINDS OF LIVING
“He is responsible”: Henry McBride, “Art News and Reviews—Woman as Exponent of the Abstract: Curious Responses to Work of Miss O’Keefe [sic] on Others; Free Without Aid of Freud, She Now Says Anything She Wants to Say—Much ‘Color Music’ in Her Pictures,” New York Herald, February 4, 1923; reprinted in Lynes, O’Keeffe, Stieglitz, and the Critics, p. 187.
“I made up my mind”: “I Can’t Sing, So I Paint! Says Ultra Realistic Artist; Art Is Not Photography—It Is Expression of Inner Life!: Miss Georgia O’Keeffe Explains Subjective Aspect of Her Work,” New York Sun, December 5, 1922; reprinted in Lynes, O’Keeffe, Stieglitz, and the Critics, pp. 180–82.
“things of the mind”: PS, quoted in Tyrrell, “Art Observatory: Exhibitions and Other Things,” The World, February 11, 1923; quoted in Lynes, O’Keeffe, Stieglitz, and the Critics, p. 194.
“To me they seem”: Helen Appleton Read, “Georgia O’Keeffe’s Show an Emotional Escape,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, February 11, 1923; reprinted in Lynes, O’Keeffe, Stieglitz, and the Critics, p. 192.
“In definitely unbosoming”: Henry McBride, “Art News and Reviews,” reprinted in Lynes, O’Keeffe, Stieglitz, and the Critics, pp. 189–90.
“I found that I could say”: GOK, statement in Alfred Stieglitz Presents One Hundred Pictures, Oils, Water-colors, Pastels, Drawings, by Georgia O’Keeffe, American (New York: Anderson Galleries, 1923); reprinted in Lynes, O’Keeffe, Stieglitz, and the Critics, p. 184.
“You have had reports”: AS to RSS, February 3, 1923, ASA/YCAL.
“One must sell to live”: GOK to Doris McMurdo, July 1, 1922, ASA/YCAL; reprinted in Cowart and Hamilton, p. 170.
“Beck has her own”: AS to PS, January 2, 1923, CCP.
“New York is still”: AS, An Exhibition of Photography by Alfred Stieglitz: 145 prints, Over 128 of Which Have Never Been Publicly Shown, Dating from 1886–1921 (New York: Anderson Galleries, 1921), unpaginated.
“In a portrait of Rebecca Salsbury”: “Art Week Marked by Events of Wide Interest—Foreign Notes,” New York Times, April 8, 1923.
“From the beginning”: PS, “The Art Motive in Photography,” British Journal of Photography 70 (October 1923): 612–15.
“White is really so unspeakably stupid”: AS to PS, July 16, 1923, CCP.
“preciousness”: Charles Sheeler, cited in Whelan, Alfred Stieglitz, p. 445.
“Any exception”: Copies of Sheeler and Strand letters were included in PS to AS, June 26, 1923, ASA/YCAL.
“I know things are hard”: RSS to PS, Tuesday [June 19, 1923], CCP.
“You are a lovely lover”: RSS to PS, Wednesday evening [June 20, 1923], CCP.
“a sweet and girlish grey”: RSS to PS, Friday p.m. [June 22, 1923], CCP.
“I want you so to be free”: RSS to PS, Friday night [August 27, 1923], CCP.
“I must earn my daily”: RSS to AS, June 29, 1923, ASA/YCAL.
“You deserve a little holiday”: RSS to PS, Sunday a.m. [July 27, 1923], CCP.
“I certainly failed”: AS to Elizabeth Stieglitz Davidson, October 11, 1923, ASA/YCAL.
“Marie’s kid is cute”: AS to RSS, July 1, 1923, ASA/YCAL.
“I think the business”: RSS to AS, July 2, 1923, ASA/YCAL.
“I know I would be evil”: RSS to PS, August 6, 1923, CCP.
“my kind of ‘touch’ ”: AS to RSS, July 1, 1923, ASA/YCAL.
“in a pas de deux”: AS to RSS, July 20, 1923, ASA/YCAL.
“She’ll keep that kitchen”: RSS to PS, August 20, 1923, CCP.
“Beckalina Mina Carissima”: AS to RSS, August 6, 1923, ASA/YCAL.
“to take you in my arms”: RSS to AS, August 7, 1923, ASA/YCAL.
“fit for the gods”: AS to RSS, August 9, 1923, ASA/YCAL.
“I’m like a ship”: RSS to PS, August 22, 1923, CCP.
“Will I never stop”: RSS to PS, Sunday a.m., September 2, 1923, CCP.
“She told me the story”: RSS to PS, Thursday [September 6, 1923], CCP.
“There is peace”: AS to GOK [September 10, 1923], MFO, p. 341.
“Beck as nice”: AS to GOK [September 13, 1923], MFO, p. 343.
“America without”: AS to PR, September 5, 1923, ASA/YCAL.
“It leads us”: Rosenfeld, Port of New York, pp. 204–5.
“derives from [Alfred’s] photographs”: RSS to PS, Friday a.m. [September 21(?) 1923], CCP.
“The American failure”: Rosenfeld, Port of New York, pp. 209–10.
“I am the only one”: RSS to PS, Wednesday a.m. [September 19, 1923], CCP.
“like a haunted man”: RSS to PS, September 4, 1923, CCP.
; “I fear Beck”: AS to GOK, September 23, 1923, MFO, pp. 352–53.
“If Strand doesn’t understand”: AS to GOK, September 25, 1923, MFO, p. 356.
“a million miles away”: AS to Elizabeth Stieglitz Davidson, September 24, 1923, ASA/YCAL.
“Stieglitz wants”: RSS to PS, September 28, 1923, CCP.
“This house is queer”: RSS to PS, September 28, 1923, CCP.
“I feel the more”: RSS to PS [Sunday, September 30], CCP.
He recalled Georgia’s resentment: See AS to RSS, July 21, 1929, YCAL.
“until I can’t anymore”: RSS to AS, October 29, 1923, ASA/YCAL.
“seemed to envelope”: RSS to AS, October 15, 1923, ASA/YCAL.
“Your family does run into my life”: RSS to AS, November 15, 1923, ASA/YCAL.
“There was infinite pleasure”: RSS to AS, October 8, 1923, ASA/YCAL.
“I can see you”: RSS to AS, October 29, 1923, ASA/YCAL.
“You will come into your own”: AS to PS, October 15, 1923, no. 2, CCP.
“You two are still”: RSS to AS, November 25, 1923, ASA/YCAL.
“There is something so perfect”: GOK to SA [November 1923], cited in Whelan, Alfred Stieglitz, pp. 454–55.
“I know all your Life”: AS to RSS, November 17, 1923, ASA/YCAL.
“I know my own worth”: AS to PR, November 14, 1923, ASA/YCAL.
“a hummer”: AS to PR, November 20, 1923, ASA/YCAL.
“a Jew who has arrived”: AS to PS, November 15, 1923, CCP. See Clarence I. Freed, “Alfred Stieglitz: Genius of the Camera,” The American Hebrew, January 18, 1924.
“I have learnt an awful lot”: AS to PS, November 15, 1923, CCP.
“At the root of the man’s dream”: Rosenfeld, Port of New York, p. 264.
“something thrust fuller”: ibid., p. 279.
CHAPTER 10: SENSITIVE PLANTS
“I don’t worry”: AS to Marie Boursault, November 28, 1923, ASA/YCAL.
“services rendered”: Whelan, Alfred Stieglitz, pp. 456–57.
“not as a Southerner”: Waldo Frank, “Foreword,” in Toomer, pp. 138–40.