General View from the Penthouse at 56 Seventh Avenue, New York
Place
United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date
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Unmarked recto; stamped verso, upper center, in pink ink: "FEDERAL ART PROJECT / "Changing New York" / PHOTOGRAPHS BY BERENICE ABBOTT [in rectangle]"; stamped and inscribed verso, center, in pink ink and graphite: "Title: [stamped in pink ink] General View from Penthouse / at 56 Seventh Avenue [inscribed in graphite] / Place: [stamped in pink ink] Manhattan [inscribed in graphite] / Angle of View: / Date: [stamped in pink ink] July 14 1937 [inscribed in graphite] / Neg. # [stamped in pink ink] 254 [inscribed in graphite] Code: [stamped in pink ink] I D [inscribed in graphite]; stamped verso, lower left, in black ink: "APR 14 1939"
Dimensions
Image/paper: 23.8 × 18.7 cm (9 3/8 × 7 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
The Art Institute of Chicago, Works Progress Administration Allocation
Reference Number
1943.1382
Extended information about this artwork
Art Institute of Chicago, “Photographs from the Permanent Collection,” March 20–May 30, 1976. (Miles Barth)
Art Institute of Chicago, “After the Crash: Picturing the United States 1930-1943,” October 21, 2000–January 28, 2001. (Mark Pascal and Kristin Nagel Merrill)(Gallery 1)
Art Institute of Chicago, “Photography + Folk Art: Looking for America in the 1930s,” September 21, 2019–January 19, 2020. (Galleries 1–4) (Elizabeth Siegel and Elizabeth McGoey)
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