Fortieth Street Between Fifth and Sixth Avenues
Artist
Berenice Abbott
(American, 1898 - 1991)
DateSeptember 8, 1938
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 7 15/16 × 9 15/16 inches (20.16 × 25.24 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.645
SignedArtist's stamp on sheet verso, center, in black ink with pencil: "FEDERAL ART PROJECT / "Changing New York / PHOTOGRAPHS BY BERENICE ABBOTT / Title: Fortieth Street Between Fifth / and Sixth avenues / Place: Manhattan / Angle / of View: / Date: Sept 8 1938 / Neg: 57-A / Code: IA3"
Inscribednone
Markingsnone
On View
Not on viewCollections
Terms
Seven Masters of Photography. Lafayette Museum of Art, Lafayette, IN, February 1 - March 15, 1983, no cat.
Cityscapes: 20th Century Urban Images from the Hallmark Photographic Collection. First Street Forum, St. Louis, MO, April 13 – May 20, 1984, no cat.
Women Photographers. Drew University, Madison, NJ, Unknown - September 27, 1985, no cat.
Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1982;
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.
Copyright© Berenice Abbott / Commerce Graphics
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