Berenice Abbott (American, 1898-1991). St. Bartholomew's Church, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, and General Electric Building, Par...

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Berenice Abbott (American, 1898-1991)
St. Bartholomew's Church, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, and General Electric Building, Park Avenue and 51st Street, April 2, 1936
Gelatin silver
9-1/2 x 7-3/8 inches (24.1 x 18.8 cm)
Signed in pencil on mount recto and "Abbott, Maine" stamp on verso.

LITERATURE:
Berenice Abbott, Changing New York, The New Press, New York, 1997, pl. 29, p. 383.

EXHIBITED:
Berenice Abbott: The '20s and the '30s, International Center of Photography, November 22, 1981-January 10, 1982 and National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C., June 4-August 29, 1982.

PROVENANCE:
By descent from a close friend and supporter of Berenice Abbott.

To help Berenice Abbott get her work more widely known this friend helped put together an exhibition at the International Center of Photography, NY, which ran from Nov. 22, 1981 to Jan. 10, 1982 entitled Berenice Abbott: The '20s and the '30s. This exhibition then traveled to the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C., from June 4 to Aug. 29, 1982. Then in 1988 they worked together on another exhibition, Berenice Abbott's New York: Photographs of the 30's and 40's, at the Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY.



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