Bread Store, 259 Bleecker Street (Primary Title)
Changing New York (Primary Title)
Berenice Abbott, American, 1898 - 1991 (Artist)
Unsigned
Photographer's stamp in brown ink on print verso and later crossed through with an "x" in graphite: “photograph / berenice abbott / 50 commerce st. / new york city”
Title, number, code, and date inscribed in graphite on print verso: "Bread Store/ Bleeker[sic] St. #259 / Neg. 199 - Code III - .A-1 / Feb. 3, 1937"
Adolph D. and Wilkins C. Williams Fund
"Masterpieces of Photography from the Permanent Collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts: The First Hundred Years, 1839-1939", VMFA, November 6, 2020 - May 23, 2021
"Art of the 30's," artmobile exhibition, January 1980 - June 1981.
"Art of the 30's," artmobile exhibition, January 1980 - June 1981.
Sotheby’s New York auction catalogue, Sale N07850, 23 October 2002, “Berenice Abbott’s New York: Photographs from The Museum of the City of New York,” pp. 9 -11, for guide to Abbott’s paper and stamps.
Yochelson, Bonnie. “Berenice Abbott: Changing New York” (New York: The New Press / The Museum of the City of New York, 1997).
Yochelson, Bonnie. “Berenice Abbott: Changing New York” (New York: The New Press / The Museum of the City of New York, 1997).
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