Gunsmith and Police Department
Artist
Berenice Abbott
(American, 1898 - 1991)
DateFebruary 4, 1937
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 7 5/8 x 9 5/8 inches (19.37 x 24.45 cm)
Sheet: 8 x 9 7/8 inches (20.32 x 25.08 cm)
Sheet: 8 x 9 7/8 inches (20.32 x 25.08 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.3866
SignedArtist's stamp on sheet verso, center, black ink with pencil: "FEDERAL ART PROJECT / "Changing New York" / PHOTOGRAPHS BY BERENICE ABBOTT / TITLE: Gunsmith and Police Department / 1) Centre Market Place / Place: 240 Centre Street, Manhattan / Angle of view: _____ / Date: February 4, 1937 / Neg. #204 Code: 111.1 And 11.D.1".
Inscribednone
MarkingsOn sheet verso, bottom edge, in pencil: "PF16313 24-19-96"
On View
Not on viewCollections
Terms
American Photography: Recent Additions to the Hallmark Photographic Collection. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, February 27 – May 14, 2000, no cat.
Rotation 13. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 28, 2012 – January 6, 2013, no cat.
Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, NY;
Purchased from Hoawrd Greenberg Gallery by Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1996;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Purchased from Hoawrd Greenberg Gallery by Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1996;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
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, 242 (repro.).
Copyright© Berenice Abbott / Commerce Graphics
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