Equivalent 27A
1933
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): 23.4 x 18.5 cm (9 3/16 x 7 5/16 in.)
mount: 52.9 x 39.7 cm (20 13/16 x 15 5/8 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.1011
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Stieglitz Estate Number
25D
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
1512
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1958
Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, March 16–April 27, 1958
2010
Alfred Stieglitz: The Lake George Years, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2010
Bibliography
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 1512.
2010
Annear, Judy, ed. Alfred Stieglitz: The Lake George Years. Exh. cat. Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2010.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, center verso, in graphite: 27
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: 25D
Wikidata ID
Q64036267
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
A reviewer for Stieglitz’s 1934 exhibition identified this photograph and Key Set numbers 1513 and 1514: “Three ‘Equivalents’ (cloud photographs), done in 1933, are as many prints from one negative, yet each is found to possess an altogether distinct orchestration of tone values. They are like separate readings from a page of music; readings in which so much depends upon the interpretation of the individual musician or conductor” (see Edward Alden Jewell, “Stieglitz in Retrospect,” The New York Times, 16 December 1934, section 2, 9).
Inscriptions on the Gallery’s prints and a print of Key Set number 1514, in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, indicate that these were part of a series “27.” See also Dorothy Norman, Alfred Stieglitz: An American Seer (1960), pl. 77, and the Stieglitz Memorial Portfolio (1947).
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 2018.84.16
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:
1934, New York (nos. 41–43, as Equivalents A, B, C, 1933)