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View through the Rear Wall, 89 Beekman Street, New York
View through the Rear Wall, 89 Beekman Street, New York
Object number2017.42.11

View through the Rear Wall, 89 Beekman Street, New York

Portfolio/Seriesfrom the series The Destruction of Lower Manhattan
Date1967
Artist (American, born 1942)
CultureAmerican
MediumGelatin silver print, printed 2015
DimensionsImage: 14 x 14 in. (35.6 x 35.6 cm)
Sheet: 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hilary Leff and Elliot Groffman
On View
Not on view
Period20th c
Classification(s)
SignedOn verso, signed lower center in pencil: Danny Lyon
InscribedOn verso, within stamp, lower right corner in pencil: [checkmark] / [above picture date] 67 / [above print date] 15; by unidentified hand, lower left corner in pencil: DLM70
MarkingsOn verso, stamped lower right corner in ink [within circle]: Printer / BLEAK BEAUTY / [filled-in star] / Picture Date Print Date
BibliographyLyon, Danny. The Destruction of Lower Manhattan. New York: powerHouse Books, pl. 70; Lyon, Danny, and Julian Cox. Danny Lyon: Message to the Future / Julian Cox with Elisabeth Sussman, Alexander Nemerov, Danica Willard Sachs, Ed Halter, Alan Rinzler. San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2016, pl. 63
Vassar Exhibitions
DescriptionBlack and white image of the interior of a room with the back wall knocked out looking out along the backside of a building and others visible in the distance. Debris litters the floor, wooden ceiling slats are broken and different sizes, and the remaining part of the building visible at left in the midground is crumbling.
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