42nd Street from the Sixth Avenue Subway, New York, 1940-1941

Not on View

Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

overall: 27.6 x 34.5 cm (10 7/8 x 13 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

The Marvin Breckinridge Patterson Fund for Photography

Accession Number

1998.137.1

Artists / Makers

Lisette Model (artist) American, born Austria-Hungary, 1901 - 1983

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Inscription

all on verso: upper center in graphite: 42nd St / from the Sixth Ave Subway; center: estate stamp with graphite addition: [O or D?]/C; lower left in graphite: 3/1.1 / 5/11; by later hand, lower center in graphite: LM0808

Provenance

(James Danziger Gallery, New York, NY); purchased with donated funds from Marvin Breckinridge Patterson by NGA, 1998.

Associated Names

Artland

Exhibition History

1998: The American Century: Observations and Metaphors, James Danziger Gallery, New York, 1998.

2010: Street Seen: The Psychological Gesture in American Photography, 1940-59, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, 2010, no. 86.

Bibliography

1978: A Book of Photographs from the Collection of Sam Wagstaff. Ex. cat. The Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C.: no. 5.

1998: The American Century: Observations and Metaphors. Exh. cat. James Danziger Gallery. New York, 1998: pl. 25.

2009: Street Seen: The Psychological Gesture in American Photography, 1940-59. Exh. cat., Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee. Milwaukee, WI: Milwaukee Art Museum, 2009: no. 86.