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Floating Oyster Houses

Artist Berenice Abbott (American, 1898 - 1991)
Date1935-1938; printed later
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 9 5/16 × 7 5/16 inches (23.65 × 18.57 cm)
Mount: 16 1/16 × 14 inches (40.8 × 35.56 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.643
SignedSigned on mount recto, lower right, in pencil: "BERENICE ABBOTT"; Artist's stamp on mount verso, center, in black ink: "PHOTOGRAPH / BERENICE ABBOTT / ABBOTT, MAINE 04406"
Inscribednone
Markingsnone
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DescriptionImage of an iron suspension bridge taken from below. Three floating oyster houses along lower third of image beneath the bridge.Exhibition History

20th-Century Photographs from the Hallmark Photographic Collection. Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, IA, January 10, - February 22, 1981, no cat.

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

Women Photographers. Drew University, Madison, NJ, Unknown - September 27, 1985, 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.
Copyright© Berenice Abbott / Commerce Graphics
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