Equivalent
1925
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 11.8 x 9.2 cm (4 5/8 x 3 5/8 in.)
mount: 34.1 x 27.3 cm (13 7/16 x 10 3/4 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.938
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Stieglitz Estate Number
170E
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Key Set Number
1120
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Bibliography
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 1120.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: Georgia's Pick A+1 / 1925; center verso: Best; center right verso: A+1; lower left verso: A1
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: 170E
Wikidata ID
Q64036102
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
Another print made from the same negative in the “Waste Basket Collection” at Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven (YCAL MSS 85, box 121, frame 40), is inscribed: 1925 / 1928 / Equivalent.
Stieglitz Collections
A corresponding print was given to the following institution(s) by Alfred Stieglitz during his lifetime, or was received or acquired from the estate:
The Art Institute of Chicago, 1949.804
George Eastman Museum, Rochester, 74:0052:0006 (inscribed: Top / Equivalent—1925 / Alfred Stieglitz / 1925)
Library of Congress, Washington, PH-62 A (inscribed: 1926? [5 written over 6])
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 28.128.7 (inscribed: Equivalent—1925 / Alfred Stieglitz / 1925)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 92.1943.5 (inscribed: An Equivalent in a Series of 7 Equivalents A, B, C, D, E, F, G—[1921–1938] / This is E)
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Ph-163
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1949-18-93 (inscribed: A1)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 52.1835 (inscribed: P1927 / N1925)
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
Charles and Alexandra van Horne (inscribed: "Equivalents" – / "The Room" – D.N. – / 1929)
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 87.XM.131
Saint Louis Art Museum, 175:1984
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 2016.101.252