About the Artwork
Fifth Avenue at Eighth Street
1936
Berenice Abbott
1898-1991
American
Unknown
Gelatin silver print
Image (and sheet): 15 1/2 × 19 3/8 inches (39.4 × 49.2 cm) Mount: 20 × 28 inches (50.8 × 71.1 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, Miscellaneous Gifts Fund
72.546
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Markings
Signed at lower right, on mount, in pencil: Berenice Abbott
Provenance
by 1972, the Halsted Gallery (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA)
1972-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bulletin of the DIA 56 (1978): 141-152 (ill., p. 149).
Photographs from the Collection of La Salle National Bank. Exh. cat., LaSalle National Bank. Chicago, 1995, p. 9 (ill.).
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Berenice Abbott, Fifth Avenue at Eighth Street, 1936, gelatin silver print. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Miscellaneous Gifts Fund, 72.546.
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