Old Post Office
Artist
Berenice Abbott
(American, 1898 - 1991)
Date1938; printed later
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 9 3/16 × 7 1/2 inches (23.34 × 19.05 cm)
Mount: 16 5/8 × 14 inches (42.23 × 35.56 cm)
Mount: 16 5/8 × 14 inches (42.23 × 35.56 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.640
SignedSigned on mount recto, lower right, in pencil: "BERENICE ABBOTT";
Artist's stamp on mount verso, bottom center, in black ink: "PHOTOGRAPH / BERENICE ABBOTT / ABBOTT, MAINE 04406"
Inscribednone
Markingsnone
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Terms
Seven Masters of Photography. Lafayette Museum of Art, Lafayette, IN, February 1 - March 15, 1983, no cat.
Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1974;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Berenice
Abbott and Elizabeth McCausland. New York
in the Thirties. New York, NY: Dover Publications, Inc., 1939, plate 19
(repro.).
Copyright© Berenice Abbott / Commerce Graphics
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