People, Streets of New York, 83rd and West End Avenue

1916

Paul Strand

Associated Names
Paul Strand

Artist, American, 1890 - 1976

This is a photograph of a street view with dramatic shadows. The image captures an urban scene, where the sidewalk and street are bathed in light, and large, bold shadows cast by an unseen structure create striking shapes on the ground. The shadows create an interplay of light and dark. The textures of the pavement and street add to the composition, while the rounded and angular forms of the shadows juxtapose against the straight lines of the paving stones. The overall composition is defined by contrasting light and shadow, highlighting the geometry and surfaces of the urban environment.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    platinum print

  • Credit Line

    Patrons' Permanent Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 24.2 x 33 cm (9 1/2 x 13 in.)
    sheet: 25 x 33.7 cm (9 13/16 x 13 1/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1990.85.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Paul Strand Archive, Aperture Foundation, Millerton, NY; NGA purchase, 1990.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1990

  • Greenough 1990, p. 157, illus. p. 20.

  • 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.

1995

  • Recent Acquisitions of Works of Art on Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.

1998

  • Paul Strand: Circa 1916, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10 March - 31 May 1998; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 19 June - 15 September 1998.

2015

  • In Light of the Past: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Collecting Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May 3 – July 26, 2015

Bibliography

1990

  • Greenough 1990, p. 157, illus. p. 20.

1998

  • Hambourg, Maria Morris. Paul Strand: Circa 1916. Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1998: pl. 19.

Inscriptions

all on mount: lower right in graphite: Paul Strand - 1916 -; by later hand, upper left verso in graphite: EW-NY-139 / F.1

Wikidata ID

Q64158620

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