Waterfront from Roof of Irving Trust Co. Building

1938

Berenice Abbott American, 1898-1991

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Berenice Abbott documented New York City during a period of rapid modernization, photographing the city from dramatic vantage points over a decade beginning in 1929. Abbott had worked in Paris in the 1920s for the American-born artist Man Ray; he introduced her to the photographs of Eugène Atget, who documented the vanishing architecture, shop windows, and street vendors of the changing French city. Abbott developed a signature style in the body of images she created of the American metropolis, which would become the publication Changing New York (1940).

Title Waterfront from Roof of Irving Trust Co. Building

Artwork Date 1938

Artist Berenice Abbott

Life Dates 1898-1991

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. American

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Medium Gelatin silver print

Dimensions Overall: 10 × 8 inches (25.4 × 20.3 cm)

Classification Photographs

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Mary Martin Semmes Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 75.52

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Signed Signed in pencil, on verso, upper left corner: Berenice Abbott

Inscriptions Inscribed in pencil, on verso, upper left corner: Federal Arts Project In pencil, on verso, upper right corner (partially legible): reprocessed | by G. A. Tice Feb '71 | $150.- | w Titled in pencil, on verso, centered: Waterfront From Roof of Irving Trust Co. Building | Manhattan | L.8 | ID | May 4, 1978

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1975-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Bulletin of the DIA 56 (1978): pp. 141-152 (ill., 150).

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Berenice Abbott, Waterfront from Roof of Irving Trust Co. Building, 1938, gelatin silver print. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Mary Martin Semmes Fund, 75.52.