Falling Bodies Of Unequal Mass, MIT, Cambridge

1958-1961, printed later

Berenice Abbott

Artist, American, 1898 - 1991

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mr. Ronald Kurtz)

  • Dimensions

    image: 47.3 × 13.1 cm (18 5/8 × 5 3/16 in.)
    mount: 70.9 × 33.4 × 0.1 cm (27 15/16 × 13 1/8 × 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.19.4427


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Ronald Kurtz, East Rutherford, NJ; gift to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1988; acquired by NGA, 2015.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2010

  • Helios: Edweard Muybridge in a Time of Change, Exploration Gallery, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, April 10 – July 18, 2010

Inscriptions

signed by artist, below image in graphite: BERENICE ABBOTT; by unknown hand, bottom right corner perpendicular in graphite: D 8801; on verso, artist stamp, bottom center in black ink: BERENICE ABBOTT / ABBOT, MAINE 04406 / ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Wikidata ID

Q64145222


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