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Berenice Abbott

Court of the First Model Tenements in New York City

1935

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Berenice Abbott

Court of the First Model Tenements in New York City

1935

Physical Qualities Gelatin silver print, Sheet: 252 x 202 mm. (9 15/16 x 7 15/16 in.)
Credit Line Friends of Photography Fund
Object Number 1986.9
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1986, from Simon Lowinsky Gallery, Benedict House, Millton, NY.
BMA, "Mini Exhibition: Purchases by the Friends of Photography," 3 February - 17 February, 1989.

BMA, "The Face of America: Modernist Art, 1910-1950," 9 October - 29 December 1996.

Easton, Academy of the Arts, "The Face of America: Modernist American Art 1910-1950," 12 September - 25 October 1997.

Rena Hoisington, BMA, "Looking through the Lens: Photography 1900-1960," 16 March - 8 June 2008.

Rena Hoisington, The Academy Art Museum, "Picturing America: 1930-1960 Photographs from the Baltimore Museum of Art," July 31 - October 3, 2009.

Virginia Anderson, The Baltimore Museum of Art, American Modernism reinstallation, July 15 - November 29, 2022.
Berenic Abbott, "Berenice Abbott/Photgraphs", New York: Horizon Press, 1970, p. 107.

Inscribed: Verso: at center, in graphite: "Berenice Abbott"

Markings: Verso: at center, stamped in red ink: "PHOTOGRAPH BY BERENICE ABBOTT / ALL RIGHTS RESERVED"

Artist

Berenice Abbott

1897–1990

born Springfield, OH 1898; died Monson, ME 1991
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