Equivalent
1930
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): 9.1 x 11.8 cm (3 9/16 x 4 5/8 in.)
mount: 34.8 x 27.5 cm (13 11/16 x 10 13/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.1066
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Stieglitz Estate Number
152E
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
1330
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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
Bibliography
1946
Engelhard, Georgia. "The Face of Alfred Stieglitz." Popular Photography 19 (September 1946): 54.
1947
Engelhard, Georgia. "Alfred Stieglitz: 'Father of Modern Photography.'" The Camera 69 (June 1947): 50.
1950
Norman, Dorothy. "Alfred Stieglitz on Photography.” Magazine of Art 43 (December 1950): 299.
1984
"The Equivalent Tradition." Aperture 95 (Summer 1984): 9.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 1330.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, center verso, in graphite: Ex 1932; lower left verso: 1G / 1930 [underlined]
by later hands, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite: 152E; lower left verso, in brown pencil: 11 [underlined]; lower right verso, in graphite: 025
Wikidata ID
Q64036388
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, 1949.796 (inscribed: Ex 1932 / 1930 )
Library of Congress, Washington, PH-42 A (inscribed: 1930)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 50.853
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 92.1943.6 (inscribed: An Equivalent in a Series of 7 Equivalents A, B, C, D, E, F, G—(1921–1938) / This is F)
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 93.XM.25.14 (inscribed: For Georgia / 1930)
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1967-285-1 (inscribed: To D. / 31. / 1930)
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, E.896-2003
Location unknown
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:
Robert W. Marks, “Man with a Cause,” Coronet 4 (September 1938): 167 (ill., Equivalent, 1923)
Robert W. Marks, “Stieglitz—Patriarch of Photography,” Popular Photography 6 (April 1940): 21 (ill., untitled)