Falling Bodies Of Unequal Mass, MIT, Cambridge

1958-1961, printed later

Berenice Abbott

Associated Names
Berenice Abbott

Artist, American, 1898 - 1991

This is a photograph showing a scientific measurement involving falling or rising droplets. Two vertical rulers with numbers and increments are positioned on the left and right sides. Between the rulers, two vertical series of circular shapes, resembling droplets, are visible. The droplets vary in size in an orderly fashion. The backdrop is dark, emphasizing the reflective quality of the droplets.
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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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