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Broadway To The Battery

Artist Berenice Abbott (American, 1898 - 1991)
Date1938; printed later
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 9 9/16 × 7 3/16 inches (24.29 × 18.26 cm)
Mount: 16 5/16 × 14 inches (41.43 × 35.56 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.639
SignedSigned on mount recto, lower right, in pencil: "BERENICE ABBOTT"; Artist's stamp on mount verso, bottom, in black ink: "PHOTOGRAPH / BERENICE ABBOTT / ABBOTT, MAINE 04406"
Inscribednone
Markingsnone
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DescriptionAerieal image of cityscape (New York). Skyscrapers fill lower 2/3 of foreground. A body of water with large ships in the background. In distance is the Statue of Liberty.Exhibition History

Seven Masters of Photography. Lafayette Museum of Art, Lafayette, IN, February 1 - March 15, 1983, no cat.

Provenance
Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1974;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005..
Published References
Berenice Abbott and Elizabeth McCausland. New York in the Thirties. New York, NY: Dover Publications, Inc., 1939, plate 2 (repro.).
Copyright© Berenice Abbott / Commerce Graphics
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