Object number1973.22.5

Hardware store, 316-318 Bowery, at Bleeker Street

Portfolio/Seriesfrom the series Changing New York

Date1/26/1938

Artist Berenice Abbott (American, 1898-1991)

CultureAmerican

MediumGelatin silver print, mounted to board, printed later

DimensionsImage: 15 3/4 x 19 3/4 in. (40 x 50.2 cm)
Mount: 21 3/4 x 27 in. (55.2 x 68.6 cm)
Matted: 22 x 28 in. (55.9 x 71.1 cm)

Credit LinePurchase, The Charles E. Merrill Trust Fund

On View

Not on view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

Photograph

SignedOn mount, signed lower right in pencil: BERENICE ABBOTT

MarkingsOn reverse of mount, stamped lower center in ink: PHOTOGRAPH / BERENICE ABBOTT / ABBOTT MAINE 04406

CopyrightEstate of Berenice Abbott

BibliographyAbbott, Berenice; Elizabeth McCausland. New York in the Thirties. New York: Dover Publications, 1973, pl. 32; Moore, Kevin D.; Eugène Atget, and Berenice Abott. Old Paris and Changing New York: Photographs by Eugène Atget and Berenice Abott / Kevin Moore. Cincinnati: FotoFocus and the Taft Museum of Art, 2018, p. 123; Yochelson, Bonnie, and Berenice Abbott. Berenice Abbott: Changing New York. New York: New Press, 1997, pl. 35

Vassar Exhibitions

The Friends Focus: On Photography

Exhibition HistoryThe Friends Focus: On Photography, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, December 7, 1989 - February 11, 1990
DescriptionBlack and white image of a store front filled with different kinds of tools and appliances, including knives, pans, electric fans, bird cages, etc. Large sign on right reads "sale on tools," sign top center reads "sale on knives." There is no open space visible around the storefront except a small amount of sidewalk along bottom edge. Several price signs on containers full of tools sit directly on sidewalk in front of shop.

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