About This Artwork

Berenice Abbott
American, 1898–1991

Rockefeller Center, ca. 1932

Gelatin silver print
29.4 x 23.8 cm
Julien Levy Collection, Gift of Jean and Julien Levy, 1978.1031

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Fort Worth, Texas, Amon Carter Museum, "American Modern: Abbott, Evans, Bourke-White," October 1, 2010–January 2, 2011; traveled to the Art Institute of Chicago, February 5–May 15, 2011; Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, July 9–October 2, 2011.

Publication History

Abbott, Bernice. 1970. "Photographs." Horizon Press. p. 129. (variant image: negative flipped vertically)

"Berenice Abbott: Documentary Photographs of the 1930s." 1980. The New Gallery of Contemporary Art. pp. 14–17. (other print of this image)

Corwin, Sharon, Jessica May, and Terri Weissman. 2010. "American Modern: Documentary Photography by Abbott, Evans, and Bourke-White." Exh. cat. Amon Carter Museum and Colby College Museum of Art / University of California Press. p. 40, pl. 6.