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BERENICE ABBOTT (1898–1991)
The Daily News Building, 220 East 42nd Street, 1935
gelatin silver print, printed later
stamped photographer's 'Abbott, Maine' credit (verso); typed credit, title and date on affixed Museum of Modern Art label (mat, interior)
image/sheet: 13 3/8 x 10 1/2 in. (33.9 x 26.6 cm.)

Provenance
Acquired from the artist, 1971.
Literature
Berenice Abbott, Photographs, Horizon Press, New York, 1970, p. 124.
Elizabeth McCausland, New York in the Thirties as Photographed by Berenice Abbott, Dover Publications Inc., New York, 1973, p. 65.
Hank O’Neal, Berenice Abbott: American Photographer, McGraw Hill, New York, 1982, p. 134.
Bonnie Yochelson, Berenice Abbott: Changing New York, 'Middle East Side', The New Press, New York, 1997, pl. 19.
Hank O’Neal, Berenice Abbott, Vol. 2, New York, Steidl, New York, 2008, p. 75.
Exhibited
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Edward Steichen Photography Center Inaugural Installation, May 17, 1984.
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