The Empire Stores warehouse on Water Street and Dock Street in Brooklyn

May 22, 1936, printed later

Berenice Abbott

Artist, American, 1898 - 1991

Berenice Abbott

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mr. Ronald Kurtz)

  • Dimensions

    image: 37 × 47.7 cm (14 9/16 × 18 3/4 in.)
    mount: 60.9 × 76.3 × 0.1 cm (24 × 30 1/16 × 1/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.19.4430


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Ronald Kurtz, East Rutherford, NJ; gift to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1988; acquired by NGA, 2015.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1939

  • Abbott, Berenice. Changing New York. New York, 1939: 201.

Inscriptions

signed by artist, below image on right in graphite: BERENICE ABBOTT; on verso, artist stamp, bottom center in black ink: BERENICE ABBOTT / ABBOT, MAINE 04406 / ALL RIGHTS RESERVED; by unknown hand, bottom right corner in graphite: D 8803

Wikidata ID

Q64145224


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