5th Avenue and 43rd Street
1978
Artist, American, born 1938
Artwork overview
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Medium
chromogenic print
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Gift of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company)
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Dimensions
image: 39 × 49.5 cm (15 3/8 × 19 1/2 in.)
sheet: 40.64 × 50.8 cm (16 × 20 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.4277
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Max B. Schwartz, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, New York; gift to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (through Witkin Gallery, Inc., New York), 1982; acquired by NGA, 2015.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1979
American Images: New Work by Twenty Contemporary Photographers, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, October 13 – December 2, 1979, organized by the Bell System. Travelled until April 1982.
2025
The '70s Lens: Reimagining Documentary Photography: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, October 6, 2024–April 6, 2025
Bibliography
1979
Danese, Renato ed. American Images: New Work by Twenty Contemporary Photographers. Exh. cat. New York, 1979: 166, no. 231.
Inscriptions
on verso, signed by artist, bottom left in black ink: 855 5th Ave and 43rd 1978 Joel Meyerowitz; by Corcoran Gallery of Art, bottom right: 1982.3.48
Wikidata ID
Q64155898