48th Street, Looking Northwest from a Point Between Second and Third Avenues, Manhattan
February 1, 1938
Berenice Abbott
Artist, American, 1898 - 1991
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 24 × 19.5 cm (9 7/16 × 7 11/16 in.)
sheet: 25.4 × 20.3 cm (10 × 8 in.) -
Accession Number
2025.107.9
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Maurizia Grossman, Washington, DC; gift to NGA, 2025.
Inscriptions
on verso, signed by artist, center in graphite: Berenice Abbott; stamped in blue ink, top center: FEDERAL ART PROJECT / “Changing New York” / PHOTOGRAPHS BY BERENICE ABBOTT / Title: [by artist in graphite]: Forty-Eighth street: looking / north-west from a point / between 2nd and 3rd Avenues / Manhattan / Neg: : [by artist in graphite]: 278 / Code: : [by artist in graphite]: I.D. / Date: : [by artist in graphite]: Feb. 1, 1938; by unknown hand, lower left corner in graphite: M.G. 4457.1