Newsstand, 32nd Street and 3rd Avenue, Manhattan

Artist Berenice Abbott (American, 1898 - 1991)

DateNovember 19, 1935

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 7 9/16 × 9 9/16 inches (19.21 × 24.29 cm)
Sheet: 7 15/16 × 9 15/16 inches (20.16 × 25.24 cm)

Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Object number2005.27.3865

Signednone

InscribedOn sheet verso, top, stamped in black ink: "FEDERAL ART PROJECT / "Changing New York" [illegible]"; On sheet verso, bottom, stamped in black ink with pencil: "Title: Newstand / Place: 32nd Street and 3rd Avenue / Manhattan / Neg. # 15 / Code: III - 1+ / Date: November 19, 1935"

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DescriptionImage of a newstand where a man stands in the lower left corner; he is wearing a dark suit and hat. Advertisements for cigars, ice cream, and coca-cola line newstand above magazines being displayed.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Rotation 17. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, August 6, 2014 – January 11, 2015, no cat.

Gallery Label

In 1929, Berenice Abbott began a personal project to photograph the texture of life in New York City. She gained official support for this project in 1935, with a grant from the Federal Art Project of the Roosevelt administration’s Works Progress Administration. Over the next four years, Abbott used her large format view camera to record the city’s buildings, docks, bridges, churches and street life. Each of these images was accompanied by carefully recorded historical and technical data.

Provenance

Purchased from Photographs, Sotheby's, New York, NY, April 6, 1993, lot 105 by Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY, 1993;
Purchased from Edwynn Houk Gallery by Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1993;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.

Published References

Keith F. Davis. An American Century of Photography: from Dry-Plate to Digital. Kansas City, MO: Hallmark Cards, Inc. in association with H.N. Abrams, 1995. Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, shown at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the Mead Art Museum, the International Center of Photography, the Auckland City Art Gallery, the National Gallery of Victoria, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, and the Museum of Photographic Arts, 189 (repro.).

Keith F. Davis. An American Century of Photography: from Dry-Plate to Digital. 2nd ed. Kansas City, MO: Hallmark Cards, Inc. in association with H.N. Abrams, 1999. Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, shown at the Phillips Collection, the Seattle Art Museum, the Joslyn Art Museum, the Delaware Art Museum, the Columbus Art Museum, and the Denver Art Museum, 243 (repro.).

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