Equivalent W2

1929

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): 11.7 x 9.1 cm (4 5/8 x 3 9/16 in.)
    mount: 34.8 x 27.6 cm (13 11/16 x 10 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1949.3.1051

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    167A

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    1278

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1983

  • Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, February 3–May 8, 1983; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June 17–August 14, 1983; The Art Institute of Chicago, October 18, 1983–January 3, 1984

Bibliography

1983

  • Greenough, Sarah, and Juan Hamilton. Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings. Washington, 1983: no. 142, pl. 64.

2002

  • Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 1278.

Inscriptions

by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, lower left verso, in graphite: W2 [2 in subscript]
by Georgia O'Keeffe, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: 167A
by later hand, on mount, lower right verso, in graphite: D

Wikidata ID

Q64036352

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:

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 50.851

Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1949-18-90 (inscribed: 1929 / 1++ / O1 / x)

The Phillips Collection, Washington, no. 1841 (inscribed: G2 / 1B)

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 52.1831

Other Collections

A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):

The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 83.151 (inscribed: Equivalent—1929 / For Dorothy Brett / Alfred Stieglitz / March 27/30)

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 2016.101.251

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