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From close to the ground, we look sharply up at three skyscrapers that nearly meet in the empty sky in this black and white photograph. The building in front of us has more than twenty-five stories, each of which is lined with windows. The building to our left is deep in shadow as it zooms steeply into space. Sun warms the top half of the building to our right. Only a sliver of sky is visible between the left and center building, and where the three meet in the deep distance.

Berenice Abbott

Canyon, Broadway and Exchange Place, 1936

Not on View

Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to image): 23.7 x 19.1 cm (9 5/16 x 7 1/2 in.)
mount: 45.1 x 36.2 cm (17 3/4 x 14 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

The Marvin Breckinridge Patterson Fund for Photography

Accession Number

2000.148.1

Artists / Makers

Berenice Abbott (artist) American, 1898 - 1991

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Inscription

all on mount: lower right in graphite: Berenice Abbott; center verso in graphite: Federal Art Project / W.P.A. N.Y.C. / Berenice Abbott Sig.; center verso: artist's stamp; lower left verso in graphite: "Canyon" / Broadway & Exchange Place / Manhattan / neg 150 July 16 1936 / Code # I.e.

Provenance

(Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York); Private collection, Los Angeles; (sale, Christie's, New York, 12 October 2000, lot 49); NGA purchase, 2000.

Associated Names

Christie's

Bibliography

1939: New York in the Thirties. New York, 1939, no. 12.

1982: O'Neal, Hank. Berenice Abbott: American Photographer. New York, 1982, 162.

1997: Yochelson, Bonnie. Berenice Abbott: Changing New York. New York, 1997, no. 18, p. 343.