Equivalent
1926
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): 11.6 x 9.2 cm (4 9/16 x 3 5/8 in.)
mount: 34.2 x 27.1 cm (13 7/16 x 10 11/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.971
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Stieglitz Estate Number
175A
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Key Set Number
1172
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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. 1172.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite, underlined: Ex 1932
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: 175A
Wikidata ID
Q64036172
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
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, 1949.805 (inscribed: Top / 1926.)
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, YCAL MSS 85, box 121, folder 2438 (inscribed: 1++)
Fisk University, Nashville, and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, ASC.2012.90
George Eastman Museum, Rochester, 74:0052:0091 (inscribed: 1926)
Library of Congress, Washington, PH-31 A (inscribed: A+1 / 1926)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 49.55.26
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 50.856
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 92.1943.2 (inscribed: An Equivalent in a Series of 7 Equivalents A, B, C, D, E, F, G—[1921–1938] / This is B)
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Ph-162
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1949-18-97
The Phillips Collection, Washington, no. 1838
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 52.1836
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York
Charles and Alexandra van Horne
Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, 2003.1.8
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 93.XM.25.1
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, 2002.08
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, PHO 2003 8 15
Private collection
Private collection (inscribed: Mrs. Waldo Frank; Alma Frank/AS)
Private collection, Washington, DC
Saint Louis Art Museum, 19:1982
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, Ph. 368-1982
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 2016.101.256
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:
Lifetime Publications
A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
Waldo Frank et al., America & Alfred Stieglitz (New York, 1934): pl. 30a (ill., Equivalent—No. 127, 1924)