Berenice Abbott Manhattan Bridge (Looking Up), New York

Photographs from The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Sold to Benefit Acquisition Funds
Berenice Abbott
1898 - 1991
Manhattan Bridge (Looking Up), New York

gelatin silver print, number '173' in the negative, signed in pencil and with the photographer's 'Abbott, Maine' stamp on the reverse
image: 9⅝ by 7½ in. (24.4 by 19.4 cm.)
Executed in 1936.

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Condition Report:
Please note the colors and shades in the online catalogue illustration may vary depending on screen settings.

This print, on paper with a subtle texture, is in generally excellent condition. The margin edges are worn with occasional tiny losses to the emulsion.

On the reverse, the following is written in pencil in an unidentified hand: 'PF97455,' '(010),' 'P.P.#1.855,' and 'TR:1774-2010.'

Catalogue Note:
In the February 1940 issue of Popular Photography, Berenice Abbott commented, “Suppose we took a thousand negatives and made a gigantic montage; a myriad-faceted picture combining the elegances, the squalor, the curiosities, the monuments, the sad faces, the triumphant faces, the power, the irony, the strength, the decay, the past, the present, the future of a city–that would be my favorite picture."

Provenance:
Collection of Shaun Lucas

Gift of the above to the present owner