140 Water Street, New York
Berenice Abbott, American, 1898 - 1991
about 1936
Gelatin silver print
Sheet: 9 1/4 × 7 1/4 in. (23.5 × 18.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Jane and Raphael Bernstein
2010.84.5
Geography
Place Imaged: New York, United States, North America
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Photograph
Research Area
Photograph
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in graphite, lower right, below image; stamped, in red ink, on reverse: PHOTO / BERENICE ABBOTT / 1 67TH ST., N.Y.C. [last line crossed out in graphite]; signed, in graphite, on reverse, below stamp: BERENICE ABBOTT; inscribed, in graphite, on reverse: BA-2 / 140 Water St. / (Statue moved later / to 69 Pearl); numbered, in graphite, on reverse, upper left: 2 [circled]; numbered, in graphite, on reverse, lower left: BA / 5Z
Course History
ARTH 17, The Power of Place: Urban and Rural Images in American Art, 1900-1945, Sarah Powers, Winter 2014
ARTH 48.02, History of Photography, Katie Hornstein, Winter 2020
ARTH 48.02, History of Photography, Katie Hornstein, Winter 2020
Exhibition History
Berenice Abbott’s Changing New York, Israel Sack Gallery [American Works on Paper Wall], Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 16-November 10, 2013.
Provenance
Zabriskie Gallery, New York, New York; Jane and Raphael Bernstein, Ridgewood, New Jersey, November 4th, 1991; lent to present collection, 2010; given to present collection, 2013.
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