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ABBOTT, BERENICE (1898-1991)
“Rockefeller Center.” Silver print, 9
1
/
4
x7
1
/
2
inches (23.5x19.1 cm.), mounted to a period board with
Abbott’s credit, in ink, on recto, and with her credit, title, and notations indicating the print was shown
at MoMA in 1937, in pencil, in an unknown hand, on mount verso. 1937
[4,000/6,000]
This print was exhibited in MoMA’s Exhibition of Photographs 1839-1937 (March 17-April 18, 1937)
organized by Beaumont Newhall. Newhall also wrote the catalogue, which helped establish him as America’s
pre-eminent historian of photography.
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ABBOTT, BERENICE (1898-1991)
“Newsstand, East 32nd Street andThird Avenue, Manhattan.” Silver print, 7
3
/
8
x9
1
/
2
inches (18.7x24.1
cm.), with Abbott’s signature, in pencil, on mount recto, and with her Maine hand stamp on mount
verso. 1935; printed circa 1980
[2,500/3,500]
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