Object number2000.32.3

General View from Penthouse, 56 Seventh Avenue, Manhattan

Date1937

Artist Berenice Abbott (American, 1898-1991)

CultureAmerican

MediumGelatin silver print

EditionVintage

DimensionsMatted: 22 x 16 in. (55.88 x 40.64 cm)
Sheet: 9 7/8 x 7 7/8 in. (25.08 x 20 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Charina Foundation

On View

Not on view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

Photograph

SignedDated (see below): 7/14/37

InscribedInscribed (verso, at center, with stamp): photograph, bernice abbott, 50 commerce street, New York City; (in pencil): General View From Penthouse at 56 Seventh Avenue, Manhattan; NY254; 7/14/37; Code ID

Exhibition HistoryTampa, FL, Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, "Naked City: Photographs from the Vassar College Collection," November 18, 2010-January 22, 2011.

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