Equivalent

probably 1927

Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to image): 11.9 x 9.2 cm (4 11/16 x 3 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1949.3.965

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    229B

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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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)


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