About the Artwork
Waterfront from Roof of Irving Trust Co. Building
1938
Berenice Abbott
1898-1991
American
Unknown
Gelatin silver print
Overall: 10 × 8 inches (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, Mary Martin Semmes Fund
75.52
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Markings
Signed in pencil, on verso, upper left corner: Berenice Abbott
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
Provenance
1975-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bulletin of the DIA 56 (1978): 141-152 (ill., 150).
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Credit Line for Reproduction
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.
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