Seventh Avenue Looking North from 35th Street, New York

Photography and Media

1936

Berenice Abbott
American, 1898–1991

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Berenice Abbott
Title: Seventh Avenue Looking North from 35th Street, New York
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1936
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Inscriptions: Unmarked recto; inscribed and signed verso, lower left, in graphite: "7TH ["TH" in superscript and underlined] Ave. looking north from 35TH ["TH" in superscript and underlined] St. / N.Y.C. / By / Berenice Abbott"
Dimensions: Image/paper: 47.9 × 36.9 cm (18 7/8 × 14 9/16 in.)
Credit Line: The Art Institute of Chicago, Works Progress Administration Allocation
Reference Number: 1943.1410

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. 55, pl. 21.

Art Institute of Chicago, “Seldom Seen Photographs from the Permanent Collection,” June 5, 1976-August 15, 1976.
Fort Worth, Texas, Amon Carter Museum, “American Modern: Abbott, Evans, Bourke-White,” October 2, 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.

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