Columbus Circle: Broadway, Central Park West, and West 59th Street, taken from the 9th floor of the General Motors Building. The Coca-Cola signs tops the American Circle Building.

February 10, 1936, printed later

Berenice Abbott

Artist, American, 1898 - 1991

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mr. Ronald Kurtz)

  • Dimensions

    image: 32.6 × 27.1 cm (12 13/16 × 10 11/16 in.)
    mount: 50.7 × 40.8 × 0.1 cm (19 15/16 × 16 1/16 × 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2016.22.88


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Ronald Kurtz, East Rutherford, NJ; gift to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1988; acquired by NGA, 2016.

Associated Names

Bibliography

2008

  • Malet, Rosa Maria et al. Modernitat Americana: Obres de la Corcoran Gallery of Art. Exh. cat. Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, 2008: 100, 167.

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: COLUMBUS CIRCLE / NYP 96.4

Wikidata ID

Q64145238


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