Looking Down, New York

1922

Paul Strand

Associated Names
Paul Strand

Artist, American, 1890 - 1976

This is a photograph of an urban street scene viewed from above. The image captures a city block with uniform, flat-roofed buildings tightly packed together. In the foreground, there's a rooftop with an irregular, chimney-covered surface. Laundry hangs on visible lines strung along the rooftops. The street is lined with several multi-story buildings, each with rows of windows reflecting light and shadows. The streets below are populated with vehicles, likely cars or streetcars, with two separate streets visible, running parallel and intersecting at the base of the image.
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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Paul Strand Archive, Aperture Foundation, Millerton, NY; Southwestern Bell Corporation, St. Louis, MO; gift to NGA, 1991

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1990

  • Greenough 1990, p. 158, illus. p.38.

  • Paul Strand: An American Vision, National Gallery of Art; The Art Institute of Chicago; Saint Louis Art Museum; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco; Victoria and Albert Museum, 1990 - 1992, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1990

  • Greenough 1990, p. 158, illus. p. 38

Inscriptions

by Hazel Strand, center verso in graphite: Paul Strand H.S.; by later hand, center verso in graphite: Looking Down, Backyard / New York; by later hand, upper left verso in graphite: EW-NY-#131 TI

Wikidata ID

Q64158647

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