Equivalent
probably 1927
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): 11.9 x 9.2 cm (4 11/16 x 3 5/8 in.)
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Accession
1949.3.965
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Stieglitz Estate Number
229B
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Key Set Number
1227
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2002
Alfred Stieglitz: Known and Unknown, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, June 2–September 2, 2002; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 6, 2002–January 5, 2003
2008
Notation, Akademie der Künste, Berlin; Zentrum Für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, 2008
Bibliography
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 1227.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: 1; lower left verso: A+1
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: 229B
by later hand, on mount, lower right verso, in graphite: D
Wikidata ID
Q64036162
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
Although this image has been variously dated 1924 and 1933, it is unlike anything Stieglitz made either year, but the composition is strongly related to images made in 1927.
In 1942 Stieglitz gave a print of this image to Arthur Dove and Helen Torr, along with a print of Key Set number 1257.
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
Location unknown (inscribed: Alfred Stieglitz / Equivalent 227 / 1933 / An American Place, 509 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. / only 2 prints of this exist)
Lifetime Exhibitions
A print from the same negative—perhaps a photograph from the Gallery’s collection—appeared in the following exhibition(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
1932, New York (no. 56, as Equivalent From Series 227–a, 1924)