Record ID:
269711
Accession number:
ARC 2643
Published:
1937 Jan. 27
Credit:
Gift of the Charina Foundation, 2007.
Description:
1 photograph
Notes:
The Morgan holds two prints of this image: this one, which is printed in warm brown tones, and ARC 725 (separately cataloged), which is printed in black and white.
With stamp on verso (Federal Art Project / "Changing New York" / Photographs by Berenice Abbott"), stamp from Abbott's studio, and title and other information filled out in pencil.
Summary:
Abbott photographed the house in 1937, when it was owned by J.P. Morgan Jr., as part of a three-year effort to document the rapidly changing metropolis. Her complete work, entitled Changing New York, was funded by the Federal Art Project of the Works Prog
Dimensions:
paper: 25.2 x 20.3 cm; image: 24.5 x 20 cm
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