About this artwork
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Photography and Media
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Artist
- Berenice Abbott
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Title
- Murray Hill Hotel, Spiral
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- Made 1935
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Medium
- Gelatin silver print
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Inscriptions
- Unmrked recto; inscribed verso, on mount, upper center, green pencil: "------ 30 [illegible] ------"; verso, on mount, upper left, in red pencil: "+ [encircled in graphite] Photography [encircled]"; stamped and inscribed verso, on mount, center, in blue ink and graphite: "FEDERAL ART PROJECT / "Changing New York" / PHOTOGRAPHS BY BERENICE ABBOTT [in rectangle] / Title: [stamped in blue ink] Murray Hill Hotel + Spiral [inscribed in graphite] / Place: [stamped in blue ink] 112 Park Avenue, Manhattan [inscribed in graphite] / Angle of View: From Park Avenue and / 40th ["th" in superscript] Street [inscribed in graphite] / Date: [stamped in pink ink] Nov. 19, 1935 [inscribed in graphite] / Neg. # [stamped in pink ink] 37 [inscribed in graphite] Code: [stamped in pink ink] I. A. 1. [inscribed in graphite]"; stamped verso, on mount, right center, in blue ink: "25695"; printed and stamped verso, on sticker affixed to mount, lower center, in red and blue ink: "SHOP No. [printed in red ink] / 25695 [stamped in blue ink]" [sticker mostly removed]
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Dimensions
- Image/paper/mount: 48.6 × 39.3 cm (19 3/16 × 15 1/2 in.)
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Credit Line
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Works Progress Administration Allocation
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Reference Number
- 1943.1413
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