Columbus Circle: Broadway, Central Park West, and West 59th Street, taken from the 9th floor of the General Motors Building. The Coca-Cola signs tops the American Circle Building.
February 10, 1936, printed later
Image not available — this artwork is under copyright
View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 32.6 × 27.1 cm (12 13/16 × 10 11/16 in.) mount: 50.7 × 40.8 × 0.1 cm (19 15/16 × 16 1/16 × 1/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mr. Ronald Kurtz)
Accession Number
2016.22.88
About the Artist
Berenice Abbott
Berenice Abbott (1898–1991) was an American photographer whose documentary images of New York City and pioneering scientific photography established her as one of the most important photographers of the twentieth century. Born in Springfield, Ohio, she moved to New York in 1918, briefly studied sculpture, and then traveled to Paris, where she became Man Ray's studio assistant in 1923. In Paris, A...